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Thomas Bowman. 




Randolph S. Foster. 



Stephen M. Merrill. 






Edward G. Andrews. 



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Henry W. Warren. 



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Cyrus D. Foss. 




John F. Hurst. 




John P. Newman. 



Daniel A. Goodsell. James M. Thoburn (India). 



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REPRESENTATIVE METHODISTS 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS 
OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 



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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 



HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, MAY. 1888. 



BY ROBERT R. DOHERTY, Ph.D., 

Assistant Editor of "The Christian Advocate." 



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WITH AN INTRODUCTION 
IWAlMIMOTOWfl By BISHOP THOMAS BOWMAN, LjL.TJ., 

Senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



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Copyright, 1 JsSft, by 

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NEW YORK. 



INTRODUCTORY WORDS 




BY BISHOP THOMAS BOWMAN, LL.D. 

HIS well-conceived and well-executed book, giving life-sketches of a large number of 
prominent representative men from all sections of our own country and from 
several otlier parts of the world, can but be useful and interesting to our own 
people and to the general reader. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church, under the blessing of God, has become the largest 
Protestant Church in the United States ; and, if adherents may be counted, fully as large as 
the Roman Catholic Church. Its missionary work, also, has been greatly prospered, so that 
its converts and friends are found in nearly all parts of the world. Ninety-nine regularly 
organized Annual Conferences exist in the United States, one in Japan, one in China, one in 
Africa, one in Mexico, three in India, and five in Continental Europe. The General Confer- 
ence is composed of ministerial representatives of all the Annual Conferences, laymen rep- 
resenting the membership within the Annual Conferences respectively, and the General 
Superintendents as the presiding officers. It meets only once in four years, and is the 
great legislative and judicial body of this world-wide Church. Some of its members are 
among the oldest and most successful of our grand missionaries. Some are well known as 
authors, or as editors of our official or semi-official papers. Quite a number have a fine repu- 
tation as presidents or professors in our literary or biblical institutions. Others are recognized 
as prominent in the legal and other secular professions, and some have become widely 
known as statesmen, in the Legislature or in Congress. All are well known in their various 
fields of labor, for ability in the pulpit, or for success in business, and for their devotion to 
the great interests of the Church they represent. Before this body are questions of great 
importance and of unusual interest, both to our own Church and to society at large. Hence 
these life-sketches will be of great value to all classes of ministers and members of our own 
Church, to the general reader, and to the future historian. 



AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



FTER Bishop Bowman's Introduction the Author would make his bow in silence 
were it not that his promise about the date of publication has not been kept, and 
he feels it his duty to give the "reason why." In the fall of 1887 this work was 
projected, and, receiving warm encouragement from many distinguished ministers and lay- 
men, the compiler diligently worked with the bright hope of placing a copy in the hand of 
each member of the General Conference on the first day of its session. Requests for photo- 
graphs and "leading questions" were promptly sent to each elected delegate, but the 
responses were in some cases so tardy that not only did the Conference meet and adjourn 
without the book, but it has been found impossible to complete it before the present date. 
Indeed, even since its completion belated sketches and portraits have come to hand. This 
much by way of apology for delay. In spite of repeated and urgent invitation, some 
of our brethren have entirely failed to respond, and one honored minister, whose fame is in 
all the churches, informed the writer that he could not accommodate him, never having had 
a likeness taken. But most of our brethren have effectively assisted in many ways. 

Notwithstanding all delays and discouragements, the preparation of this book has been 
a source of great pleasure. To mingle for a month with so many noble men and exchange 
opinions with them on subjects of the greatest interest and importance to Methodists is, 
certainly, one of the memorable privileges of a life-time. To be allowed to draw still closer, 
and be taken to a degree into their confidence, so as to learn something of the "great trib- 
ulation " through which these men have " come up " — like all men who reach positions of 
honor in this world or the next— is a privilege in some respects even greater. And to be 
permitted, by the help of artist and printer, to put all this within the covers of a book, so 
that the General Conference of 1888 shall, in fact, never adjourn, but that each of us can 
at will call up with vividness the forms and voices of those with whom we have been so 
intimately associated, and whom we have so greatly admired — this is the greatest privilege 
of all. 

During and since the General Conference many of its members have received additional 
honorary degrees. If the work were being now compiled the names of the following breth- 
ren would be adorned with the honorary initials here appended : Manley S. Hard, D.D., of 




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Wyoming Conference ; James I. Boswell, D.D., Newark ; Sabin Halsey, D.D., Wisconsin ; 
Albinus A. Johnson, D.D., Austin ; Frank M. Bristol, D.D., Rock River ; Thomas B. Ford, 
D.D., Arkansas ; James W. Mendenhall, LL.D., North Ohio ; Daniel W. Hays, D.D., East 
Tennessee; William R. Halstead, D.D., Indiana; Thomas McK. Stuart, D.D., Des Moines; 
Louis Paine, D.D., East Ohio ; Samuel McGerald, D.D., Genesee ; William H. Hunter, D.D., 
Central Illinois ; Sia Sek Ong, D.D., Ph.D., Foochow ; Samuel W. Thomas, D.D., Philadel- 
phia ; George S. Dearborn, D.D., Kansas. And perhaps there are others, whose names do 
not at present come to memory. 

The General Conference placed some of its members in positions of dignity and respon- 
sibility which are not mentioned, in their life-sketches. In the hope of bringing the book 
out earlier most of the biographies were written and printed before the election of any 
connectional officers. We append a list of the brethren thus honored : Dr. David S. Mon- 
roe was made Secretary of the Conference, and Drs. Sabin Halsey, Charles J. Clark, Manley 
S. Hard, Professors William H. Crogman and. Jacob Wernli, Revs. William S. Urmy, A. 
Clark Crosthwaite, Bert E. Wheeler, Dr. Carlton C. Wilbor, Rev. Ernest A. Simons, and the 
writer were chosen as his assistants. As all the world now knows, Drs. Vincent, FitzGerald, 
Joyce, Newman, and. Goodsell were made Bishops, and Dr. James M. Thoburn was elected 
Missionary Bishop for India and Malaysia. There were many re-elections : John M. Phil- 
lips, Esq., distinguished, for his rare business tact and. executive ability ; Dr. Sandford 
Hunt, honored and influential throughout the Church ; Dr. Earl Cranston, a brilliant 
preacher and an able official ; Dr. William P. Stowe, widely known for varied talents ; 
Dr. Alpha J. Kynett, whose genius as an organizer is demonstrated by the marvelous suc- 
cess of our Board of Church Extension ; Dr. James M. Buckley, eminent as editor and eccle- 
siastical legislator, were re-elected to the posts of honor and usefulness which they had so 
ably filled during previous terms. So also were the following gentlemen, all of whom 
were recognized as editors of pronounced ability : Drs. Jeremiah H. Bayliss, of the Western 
Christian Advocate ; Arthur Edwards, of the North-western ; B. St. James Fry, of the Cen- 
tral; Charles W. Smith, of the Pittsburg ; Orris H. Warren, of the Northern ; Benjamin F. 
Crary, of the California Christian Advocate; Thomas C. Carter, of the Methodist Advocate ; 
Aristides E. P. Albert, of the South-western; William Nast, of the Christian Apologist, and 
Henry J. Liebhart, of the Hans und Herd. Some who are described in their life-sketches 
as pastors or Presiding Elders now fill connectional positions: Drs. J. Oramel Peck and 
Adna B. Leonard were elected to be Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Society; 
Joseph C. Hartzell, to be Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society ; Jesse 
Lyman Hurlbut, to be Corresponding Secretary of the Sunday-School Union and Tract So- 
ciety ; and James W. Mendenhall, to be Editor of the Methodist Review. In every case the 
votes were highly complimentary, and in several instances practically unanimous. 



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Another fact should be mentioned. A number of excellent gentlemen and ladies were 
elected by Lay Conferences, but were excluded by vote of the majority of the General Con- 
ference because of a doubt as to their constitutional eligibility : John M. Phillips, Esq., 
Mexico Conference ; Hon. Robert E. Pattison, North India, who were chosen to represent 
Annual Conferences outside of whose boundaries they resided ; Miss Frances E. Willard, 
Rock River ; Mrs. Mary C. Nind, Minnesota ; Mrs. Angie F. Newman, Nebraska; Mrs. Lizzie 
D. Van Kirk, Pittsburg ; and Mrs. Amanda C. Rippey, Kansas, of all of whom it may be 
justly said that their eminent character and services equal those of any of the admitted 
delegates. 

As we took our seats our hearts were inexpressibly saddened by the reflection that 
"Father Wilbur" and Dr. Robert W. C. Farnsworth were no more. We had fondly hoped 
to meet them both. Our sadness was sharpened into grief when Death took from our very 
midst Brothers Clark and Bates. Nothing can ever fill the vacancy made in our hearts by 
the loss of such as these. To the families of these brethren, and to those of our number 
who suffered bereavement in their homes while the Conference was in session, our heart-felt 
sympathies are extended. 

Conscious of inadequate results from the labor expended in the compilation of this book, 
but glad of the privilege of performing that labor, the Author again makes his bow, and re- 
assures his fellow-members of the General Conference of 1888 of his unchanging love. Its 
memories will be delightful so long as a single face here portrayed remains above the sods. 
We can never be all brought together again except by these pages, but if faithful we shall 
meet in the General Assembly of the Church of the First-born in Heaven. 

Robert R. Doherty. 

Bayonne, N. J., June 30, 1888. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS. 



Frontispiece : General Superintendents and Missionary Bishops. 

Bishops Bowman, Foster, Merrill. Andrews, Warren, Foss, Hurst, Ninde, Walden, Mallalieu, Fowler, Taylor, 
Vincent, FitzGerald, Joyce, Newman, Goodsell, Thoburn. 

Plate I To face page 1G 

J.F. Chenoweth, L. S. Doolittle, W.N. McElroy, G. W. Brindell, Albert D. Peck, Isaac Bailey, Isaiah B. Scott, 
William T. Smith, H.J. Talbott, Thomas Jones, D. S. Sigler, D. W. C. Huntington, C. C. AVilbor, Bennett 
Mitchell, Geo. H. Hazzard, John Wigren, S. J. Williams, A. H. Domer, S. B. Darnell, Charles F. Hedler. 

Plate II To face page 24 

C. R. Brown, James Harrison Bunn, T. McK. Stuart, Washington G. Allen, G. A. Seefeld, S. O. Swackhamcr, 

G. W. Gue, E. A. Simons, A. E. P. Albert, J. F. Schultz, Matthias A. Hewes, Louis Paine, D. F. Barnes, 
Samuel McGerald, Robert Forbes, Thomas W. Durston, E. G. Persons, H. S. Vaughn, W. S. Turner, James 

H. Potts. 

Plate III To face page 32 

John F. Spence, Lewis Curts, Lewis R. Fiske, Amos Shinkle, R. Bentley, Benjamin W. Baker, J. W. Toland, 
D. W. Thomas, G. H. Dryer, D. H. Moore, Wm. Michell, E. M. Mills, Leslie M. Shaw. D. William 
Diggs, Jacob Horton, Daniel Striker, J. H. Gardner, Jerome I. Stanton, G. R. Townsend, Z. P. Taylor. 

Plate IV To face page 40 

T. B. Neely, John E. Williams, J. C. W. Coxe, J. W. Mendenhall, Jacob Rothweiler, A. Boreing, W. J. McKay, 
Graham Bell, Chas. F. Graver, W. R. Halstead, M. N. Hambloton, James A. Clayton, Arthur Edwards, 
L. P. Davis, Wm. St. John, T. C. Carter, Horace Reed, H. Hitchcock, J. B. Wentworth, Peter A. Cool. 

Plate V To face page 48 

J. H. Bayliss, J. D. Botkin, W. Swindells, Manley S. Hard, T. F. Hildreth, Andrew J. Bigelow, John M. Reid, 
J. H. Vincent, Geo. H. Bridgman, H. Boyd, Edward Appleyard, James Gillinder, John E. Jones, J. E. 
Stubbs, John W. Butler, J. D. Roberson, J. Wernli, J. P. Andrews, Daniel W. Hays, Theodore L. Flood. 

Plate VI To face page 56 

R. S. Borland, William Brush, Habbe Velde, Paul Quattlander, Diedrich B. Meyer. J. T. McFarland, J. B. 
McCulloch, John H. Wilkins, P. F. Schneider, Samuel A. Cowan, C. O. McCulloch, Henry Dietz, Leroy A. 
Belt, P. C. Johnson, D. R. Lowrie, William Koeueke, John C. Eckles, J. Tanner, John Leeper, R. D. 
Utter. 

Plate VII To face page 64 

J. M. Buckley, George P.Hukill, J. O. Peck, W. S. Harrington, John B. Williams. M. M. Bovard, J. P. Farley, 
S. F. Upham, William S. Hooker, J. W. Stewart, David T. Denny, A. B. Leonard, Albert M. Card, A. J. 
Nelson, D. G. Le Sourd, C. F. Creighton, W. L. Dixon, Calvin Whitney, W. H. Crogman, Charles H, 
Payne. 

Plate VIII T. To face page 72 

J. C. Hartzell, John W. Lacey, J. W. McNeill, J. M. Thoburn, James M. King, O. B. Jacobs, Warner Miller, 
Seneca N. Taylor, Hugh McBirney, Henry F. Ketron, Henry J. Liebhart, Enoch W. Moore, J. B. Jones, 
D. C. Plannette, S. C. Upshaw, T. A. Fortson, W. I. Cogshall, George H. Foster, I. W. Joyce, S. Halsey. 

Plate IX To face page 80 

Joseph H. Mansfield, Will Cumback, Henry H. Heins, James Coote, J. H. Johnson, Charles N. Sims, Jos. S. 
Baker, W. F. Speake, M. M. Stolz, Henry Schutz, J. F. Marshall, E. D. Whitlock, G. F. Eaton, F. A. 
Blumbeig, J. B. Graw, C. G. Trusdell, Homer Eaton, A. J. Kynett, J. P. Sims, John C. Jackson, Jr. 



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Plate X To face page 88 

Alexander Ashley, George S. Hare, F. J. Belcher, I. Simmons, Frederick Kopp, Nicholas M. Browne, Calvin 
Pickett, Newton R. Persinger, Samuel M. Tyler, Alexander Martin, Samuel L. Dwight, R. W. Lyon, Joel 
W. Eaton, Jacob Todd, W. B. Watkins, Daniel Dorchester, W. M. Graves, Henry A. Carroll, Harry Swann, 
R. H. Harbert. 

Plate XI To face page 9G 

H. J. Breiter, George S. Chadbournc, M. L. Gates, Joseph Pullman, Noble G. Miller, W. H. Craig, Gershom 
Lease, Benjamin St. J. Fry, Isaac F. King, E. W. S. Peck, Thomas H. Murray, A. C. Crosthwaite, J. R. 
Day, W. R. R. Duncan, T. B. Ford, A. J. Porter, M. F. Ahgren, Geo. AV. Hollingcr, Silas Easterling, 
H. H. Jacoby. 

Plate XII To face page 104 

S. W. Thomas, D. H. Carroll, A. W. McKinney, E. E. Bentley, W. S. Urmy, J. F. Goucher, Wm. F. King, 
Harry H. Green, S. L. Roberts, C. A. C. Achard, John B. Storm, J. W. Locke, C. C. Gaver, T. H. Burch, 
Wm. P. Stowe, George N. Power, G. E. Hite, J. I. Boswell, Enoch Holdstock, J. A. Hyden. 

Plate XIII To face page 112 

H. P. Cannon, George Leidy, C. J. Clark, W. H. Webster, P. W. Kost, J. L. Parrotte, H. H. McAdams, D. S. 
Monroe, David E. Beem, H. C. Clark, J. E. Bryant, J. M. Shumpert, C. G. Hudson, J. M. Warden, J. H. 
Lockwood, John B. Green, Alfred Wheeler, J. L. Sooy, P. C. Lounsbury, H. M. Danforth. 

Plate XIV To face page 120 

J. F. Core, William H. Mock, S. O. Benton, B. C. Christy, Bert E. Wheeler, J. C. Ridpath, Halbert B. Case, 
D. L. Musselman, C. D. Jones, A. C. Phillips, E. L. Eaton, Henry Graham, S. E. Pendleton, J. I). Walsh, 
C. R. Combs, J. K. Pollard, John R. Lindgren, Wilmot Whitfield, Washington Gardner, M. L. Garioe. 

Plate XV To face page 128 

Joshua E. Wilson, C. C. McCabe, E. R. Dille, J. O. Booth, John Mahin, Daniel E. Wilson, Nathan E Lyman, 
Wm. T. Atkinson, Levin S. Melson, J. C. Leacock, Morris L. Ritchie, N. H. Axtell, Wm. M. Worley, 
J. D. Slayback, Thos. H. Wentworth, F. M. Bristol, George L. Dobbins, Wm. T. Jewell, Wm. H. Hickman, 
Wm. F. Clayton. 

Plate XVI To face page 136 

J. O. Spencer, E. A. Snyrler, James N. FitzGerald, Leslie F. Gay, Earl Cranston, Wiley M. Christian, Sia Sek 
Ong, George T. King, Geo. Reynolds, Jas. W. Day, S. Van Benschoten, E. W. S. Hammond, E. O. 
Mclntire, Geo. L. Knox, Jas. Marvin, Jas. H. Deputie, G. S. Dearborn, John L. Fuller, W. A. Spencer, 
W. L. Daggett. 

Plate XVII To face page 144 

Clinton B. Fisk, T. P. Frost, C. O. Fisher, I. I. Taber, E. M. Tibbetts, W. A. Boyce, John Gillies, Christoph 
Sehulz, Benajah Sheats, C. C. McLean, Francis A. Arter, Henry Rieke, J. G. Eckman, Thos. W. Johnson, 
C. W. Smith, John S. Hetherington, S. P. Colvin, A. R. Colborn, S. H. Hurst, W. W. Satterlee. 

Plate XVIII To face page 152 

Sandford Hunt, L. M. Vernon, Elisha L. Briddell, J. F. Crouch, Wm. Griffin, D. C. Olmstead, A. A. Johnson, 
William H. Stout, J. D. Peirce, Edward L. Paine, A. P. Collins, Nathan L. Stone, Edward J. Gray, B. O. 
Bird, L. H. Rogers, F. K. Keller, W. A. Shannon, A. Haagensen, W. H. Hunter, J. E. Champlin. 

Plate XIX To face page 160 

H. A. Buttz, L. C. Smith, Henry W. Knight, Daniel A. Goodscll, J. M. Phillips, John A. B. Wilson, Robert 
R. Doherty, Jason L. Jones, R. R. Pealer, Charles L. Henry, J. L. Hurlbut, R. S. Maclay, Alden Speare, 
M. L. B. Sefrit, Abraham Eads, B. F. W. Cozier, W. H. Wilder, J. B. Maxtield, Charles J. Little. 

Plate XX To face page 168 

A. W. Pottle, Thomas Clithero, J. W. Hamilton, W. H. Johnson, W. A. Stephens, Josiah A. Strickler, J. B. 
Middleton, John N. Liscomh, E. A. Webster, Chauncey Temple, S. J. Hill, Charles D. Hammond, J. A. 
Holmes, Bernard Kelly, L. E. Chestnut, W. II. Olin, Wilbur F. Markham, E. W. Culver, Edward Lee, 
John S. Tevis. 



REPRESENTATIVE METHODISTS, 



GENERAL CONFERENCE, 1888. 



REV. JOSEPH M. TRIMBLE, D.D. 

The name which heads this paragraph re- 
calls a career at once noble and remarkable. 
In the present Conference Dr. Trimble stands 
amongst the longest links connecting us with 
the past, having been born at Hillsborough, 
Highland County, O., April 15, 1807. 

He was converted at Athens, in August, 
1827, while a student at Ohio University. A 
year later his graduation and reception into 
the Ohio Conference took place. In 1834 he 
had the distinguished offer of Professorship 
of Mathematics in the Ohio University, but 
Bishop Soule declined to make the appoint- 
ment. He was elected Professor of Math- 
ematics in Augusta College in 1835, appointed 
by Bishop Andrew, and filled the chair for 
five years. When Dr. Janes was made bishop 
he was offered the place thus rendered vacant 
in the American Bible Society, but declined in 
favor of the regular work. Again, when 
Matthew Simpson, D.D., was elected editor 
of the Western Christian Advocate he was 
offered the vacant Presidency of Asbury 
University, Ind., but this also he declined for 
the same reason. 

From the Ohio University, in which he 
had spent years of close study and vigorous 



service 
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His varied toils may be tabulated as fol- 
lows : Thirteen years spent in stations, seven- 
teen years in the Presiding Eldership, four 
years as Missionary Secretary for the West, 
three years as circuit preacher, five years as 
Professor of Mathematics in Augusta College, 
eighteen years Financial Agent for Ohio 
Wesleyan University ; representing an extent 
and intensity of toil such as few men manage 
to achieve. He is to be congratulated on 
having served in more General Conferences, 
probably, than any other minister now living. 
Since his first election, in 1844, he has been 
elected to every General Conference. 

He liberally endowed a professorship in 
Ohio Wesleyan University, and placed $2,000 
worth of books in the Trimble Alcove. Of 
this institution he has been trustee since 1852. 
Full of days and honors, he has been gra- 
ciously permitted to see a large and increas- 
ing harvest from the seeds he so patiently 
scattered. 



Rev. CARLTON C. WILBOR, Ph.D. 

Carlton Cyrenus Wilbor had his birth- 
place in Erie County, N. Y., September 10, 
1842. With a view to effective service in the 
pastorate, to which he felt inwardly called, 
he laid the foundation of a thorough educa- 
tion in Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Gen- 



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esee College, situated at Lima, N. Y. He 
graduated in 1868 and entered the ranks of 
the Genesee Conference the same year. For 
one year he prosecuted his studies in Boston 
Theological School, at the same time supply- 
ing Maplewood charge. His health gave way 
under the strain, and he was compelled in 
consequence to return to the regular work of 
the pastorate. Gifted with a spirit of brave 
determination and steady perseverance, he 
pursued the post-graduate course in Syracuse 
University, and on examination, in 1881, had 
the gratification of receiving the degree of 
Ph.D. Altogether but eleven years had 
passed away since his joining the ministry, 
when, in 1879, he was appointed Presiding 
Elder of the Troy District — an early tribute 
to the abilities and success which have marked 
his career. 

By decree of the General Conference of 
1880 the larger portion of the Troy District 
was added to Central New York Conference, 
and its name changed to Elmira District. 
Over this Dr. Wilbor was continued Presid- 
ing Elder for the remainder of the usual 
term. Since then he has served on impor- 
tant charges to the advantage of the Church 
and the satisfaction of his brethren. 

He is at present pastor of First Church, 
Elmira, and his reputation extends far be- 
yond Conference and State limits. 



REV. ERNEST ALSTON SIMONS. 

Rev. Ernest Alston Simons, who leads 
the delegation from the East Ohio Confer- 
ence, is not yet quite thirty-nine years of age, 
having been born in Geneva, Ashtabula 
County, O., June 10, 1849. He is the son of 
Gorham P. and Hannah Olive Simons. In 
boyhood he gave his heart to the Lord, and 
in the spring of 1862 united with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in Trumbull, O. Tie 
was very carefully educated, being graduated 
from the Grand River Institute, at Austin- 



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burg, O., in the summer of 1871, and from 
Mount Union College in 1872. He was Vale- 
dictorian of both classes, and three years later 
received the degree of A.M. from Mount 
Union. A few months after his graduation 
he was married to Miss Cynthia A. Reeve, of 
Rome, O., and Providence has blessed their 
union with three children. In the summer 
of 1872 he was licensed to preach, and in De- 
cember of that year began work as a " sup- 
ply " on Akron District, Erie Conference. 
He was received on trial in that Conference 
September 9, 1873, and admitted into full 
connection October 7, 1875. His license was 
signed by Rev. Cyrus Prindle, D.D., as Pre- 
siding Elder. Bishop Ames ordained him 
deacon and Bishop Simpson elder. Early in 
his ministerial life Mr. Simons came to be re- 
garded as a leader of men. Since his con- 
nection with the East Ohio Conference he 
has done exceptionally effective work in 
varying fields, and his abilities are widely 
recognized. When elected he was Presiding 
Elder of the Youngstown District. 



Rev. THOMAS COKE CARTER, D.D. 

Thomas Coke Carter w T as born of parents 
heroically loyal to the government, and in- 
tensely devoted to the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, in Carroll County, Tenn., January 1, 
1851. He was converted in 1866, licensed to 
preach in 1867, and entered the ranks of the 
itinerancy in Central Tennessee Conference 
in 1869. Through his own strenuous exer- 
tions he succeeded in earning sufficient money 
to secure the advantages of a thorough ed- 
ucation. He spent five years at Indiana 
Asbury (now De Pauw) University, and was 
graduated from its classical course in 1875. 
On December 26, 1876, he was married to 
Miss Maggie Brown, of West Tennessee. 
Early in his public career the Church recog- 
nized in him a special fitness for educational 
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to time honors and responsibilities in this de- 
partment. As Principal of West Tennessee 
Seminary and President of Tullahoma College 
lie served with great acceptance and success. 
After four years spent in the latter position 
he was appointed Missionary to China by the 
lamented Bishop Wiley. 

With pronounced ability he superintended 
our schools in China, and established at Kiu- 
kiang an English-speaking school under the 
name of the Fowler Collegiate Institute, now 
a nourishing institution. Through continued 
ill-health he was reluctantly compelled to re- 
turn home. Although his stay there was 
brief he laid such foundations aud o-ave such 
an impetus to our work in China as will yet 
give to his name an honorable place in the 
history of Methodist ministers in that great 
field. After returning he took up the work 
of the late Dr. E. Q. Fuller, and re-established 
and became editor of the Methodist Advocate 
in January, 1883. In this position, which he 
still holds, he has done noble service to the 
Church. While it has discovered and utilized 
his abilities it has not been slow to mark its ap- 
preciation of the way they have been exercised 
in varviug fields. He was delegate from 
Central Tennessee to last General Conference 
and to the Centennial Conference in the same 
year. From Grant Memorial University he 
received the degree of D.D. in 1885. 
Although but three years a member of the 
Holston Conference it elected him its delegate 
by a most substantial and gratifying vote. 



Rev. LEROY A. BELT, D.D. 

Among the men of widely recognized 
ability and influence in the Church is Leroy 
A. Belt, of the Central Ohio Conference. He 
was born in Delaware County, O., Janu- 
ary 13, 1836. His parents were Methodists, 
and at the age of twenty he was converted 
and joined the Church. He was graduated 
from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1861, 



and in the same year became a minister in 
the Central Ohio Conference. After spend- 
ing five years on laborious circuits he served 
ten years as station preacher and eight years 
as Presiding Elder on the Toledo and Dela- 
ware Districts. He was for years the Presi- 
dent of Lakeside Camp-meeting and Encamp- 
ment enterprise, having been identified par- 
ticularly with its organization. He has 
served the rest of his ministerial life as agent 
of the Ohio Wesleyan University, to which 
position he was elected again at the last ses- 
sion of his Conference. Co-education at this 
university, being brought about by the union 
with the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, was 
due largely to his influence. 

Dr. Belt was elected delegate to the Gen- 
eral Conference of 1876, and has been elected 
to each succeeding General Conference. That 
of 1880 elected him a member of the Book 
Committee. In 1884 he received a large 
vote for the position of Agent of the West- 
ern Book Concern. He has hosts of friends 
throughout the Church. His decree of D.D. 
was conferred upon him by Dickinson College. 



Rev. JEREMIAH H. BAYLISS, D.D., LL.D. 

This well-known member of the Cincin- 
nati Conference was born in Wednesbury, 
England, December 20, 1835, and came to 
America with his parents in 1837. He was 
converted in the winter of 1852-53. At the 
age of eighteen he entered Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminary, and passed his student days here 
and in Genesee College until February, 1857, 
when poor health compelled him to seek rest. 
His health improved, aud in the same year 
he entered the Genesee Conference. In 1866 
he was transferred to Chicago, Rock River 
Conference, and was pastor at Park Avenue 
and Trinity. In 1871, for reasons growing 
out of the great fire, he was transferred to the 
South-east Indiana Conference. In 1878 he 
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the following year was transferred to the De- 
troit Conference, and thence, three years later, 
to the Cincinnati. 

He was married to Miss S. A. Britton, 
September 28, 1859, and they have been 
blessed with five children. 

In 1884 Dr. Bayliss was elected editor of 
the Western Christian Advocate. He was 
honored by the degree of A.M. from Gene- 
see College in 1868, that of D.D. from Ohio 
Wesley an University, and that of LL.D. 
from Albion College, Michigan. He was a 
delegate to the General Conference of 1876, 
and was a member of the committee ap- 
pointed by that body to revise the hymn- 
book of the Church. 



ZACHARY P. TAYLOR, ESQ. 

Zachary P. Taylor, Esq., whose work of 
training young men for college is so generally 
known, had his birthplace at Rome, Oneida 
County, N. Y., February 28, 1846. In May, 
1850, his parents removed to Clarendon, Or- 
leans County. He was brought up on a farm, 
and attended district school. He also attended 
Brockport Collegiate Institute (now State Nor- 
mal School) and there prepared for college. 
In September, 1865, he entered Rochester 
University, and graduated therefrom in July, 
1869. He taught the classics in the Buffalo 
Central High School for two and a half years, 
having charge of the boys. From Buffalo he 
went to Cleveland to fill a similar position, 
with increased compensation. He resigned 
after nearly two years' service to practice 
law, for which he had been preparing while 
teaching. In 1872 he graduated from Union 
Law College in Cleveland, standing first in a 
class of twenty-six. He was associated with 
Judge Brackenridge, at Fort Wnyne, Ind., for 
two years in railway legal practice. Failing 
health led him to return to Cleveland, and 
he became first assistant in Central Hio-h 
School, and after one year was made Princi- 



pal of the West High School. Serving sev- 
eral years, he resigned, and formed a law T 
partnership. One year later he was offered, 
and accepted, the Principalship of Central 
High School, where he remained four years. 
He was now called to fill a similar position in 
Rochester, at a salary of $2,600, which posi- 
tion he filled three years, until he was removed 
by a hostile element in the Board of Edu- 
cation, because by his efforts a disreputable 
place of amusement had been closed. He re- 
sumed the practice of law, and is now en- 
gaged in the same in Rochester. 

Mr. Taylor has a wife and three children. 
He was converted in the winter of 1866 under 
the preaching of Dr. James E. Latimer, at the 
time the latter was pastor of First Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Rochester, and joined 
after the usual probation, and is still identified 
with that church. He well merits the hearty 
indorsement and honor conferred upon him 
in his election as lay delegate from Genesee 
Conference. 



REV. CHARLES N. SIMS, D.D., LL.D. 

Charles N. Sims, of the Central New York 
Conference, was born near Fairfield, Ind., 
May 18, 1835. He was graduated with the 
degree of A.B. from Indiana Asbury Univer- 
sity in 1859, and in September of that year 
joined the North Indiana Conference. After 
efficient service as Principal of the Conference 
Academy at Thornton, and as President of 
the Valparaiso (Indiana) Male and Female 
College, he was appointed, in 1865, to the 
charge at Richmond, Ind., where his ministry 
was sigmallv blessed of God, four hundred 
persons uniting with the Church in two 
years. He was pastor of the Madison Ave- 
nue Church, Baltimore, from 1870-73, when 
he was called to St. Paul's Church, Newark, 
N. J., and thence, successively, to Simpson 
and Summerfield, in Brooklyn. 

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Chancellor of Syracuse University, and as- 
sumed that office in April, 1881. He was 
honored in 1860 by the degree of A.M. from 
the Ohio Wesley an University, and those of 
D.D. and LL.D. were conferred upon him by 
his alma mater, in 1871 and 1882 respectively. 
In 1880 he was elected as a reserve delegate 
to the General Conference from the New York 
East Conference, and in 1884 he led the del- 
egation from the Central New York Confer- 
ence. He was also a prominent speaker at 
the Centennial Conference of Methodism in 
Baltimore. In 1883 he was appointed by the 
Governor of New York to negotiate a new 
treaty with the Onondaga Indians, a task 
which he successfully performed. 

Among his literary works is an admirable 
Life of the Rev. Thomas M. Eddy, B.D., which 
attained a large sale. 

Chancellor Sims has lono- been regarded as 
a leader in the Church, and his many noble 
qualities of mind and heart have endeared him 
to multitudes of friends. 



REV. SANDFORD HUNT, D.D. 

Sandford Hunt was born in Western New 
York in 1825. His parents and grandparents 
on both sides were Methodists. His mother 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church over seventy years. Her mother's 
house in New Jersey was one of the preach- 
ing places of Bishop Asbury. 

Dr. Hunt was converted and joined the 
Methodist Church at the age of fifteen. He 
was graduated from Allegheny College in 
1847, taking the honors of his class of ten in 
Latin, and received his degree of Doctor of 
Divinity from the same institution in 1871. 
He joined the old Genesee Conference in 
August of the same year, when it met for 
the last time before its division into Genesee 
and East Genesee. His first reputation as a 
financier was obtained by hard work in build- 
ing churches. 



During the war for two years he was Sec- 
retary of the United States Christian Com- 
mission for Western New York, and twice 
went to the army for active work among the 
soldiers. Nearly ten years were spent in the 
office of Presiding Elder, and in 1879 he was 
chosen Book Agent at New York to fill the 
vacancy occasioned by the death of Dr. Nel- 
son. 

Dr. Hunt was a trustee of Genesee College 
until its practical removal to Syracuse, and 
since that time has been a trustee of the Gen- 
esee Wesleyan Seminary. At the last session 
of the Genesee Conference he was elected for 
the fifth time as a delegate to the General 
Conference. This time, as once before, he 
led his delegation. 



REV. LEWIS R. FISKE, D.D., LL.D. 

Lewis R. Fiske was born December 24, 
1825, in Penfield, N. Y. His parents re- 
moved to Cold water, Mich., in 1835, where 
he was converted and joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church in 1842. He was gradu- 
ated from Michigan University in 1850, and 
commenced the study of law, but accepted 
the Chair of Natural Science in Wesleyan 
Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute in 
the autumn of that year, and occupied it for 
three years. He held a similar position in 
Michigan State Normal School from 1853 to 
1856, and the Chair of Chemistry in Michi- 
gan State Agricultural College from 1856 to 
1863. He then served several important 
pastoral charges, and was Presiding Elder on 
Ann Arbor District from 1872 to 1873. In 
1877 he became President of Albion College, 
which position he now holds. Under his 
able administration the attendance has in- 
creased threefold. 

Dr. Fiske was editor of the Michigan Chris- 
tian Advocate for three years, from its incep- 
tion in January, 1875, while performing his 
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Churches in Detroit, He has been honored 
with the degrees of A.B. from Michigan Uni- 
versity in 1850, and A.M. in 1853 ; D.D. from 
Albion College in 1873, and LL.D. from 
Michigan University in 1879. He was a 
member of the General Conferences of 1872, 
IS 70, and 1884. 

He is the President of the Detroit Confer- 
ence (the legal Conference), and a trustee of 
the Board of Education of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 



Rev. EARL CRANSTON, D.D. 

A brief outline may enable Dr. Cranston's 
numerous friends to recall at a glance the suc- 
cessive stages by which he attained to the 
position which he so worthily fills to-day. He 
was born Jane 27, 1840, at Athens, Ohio. 
Uniting with the Church in his twelfth year, 
he set to work vigorously to secure a liberal 
education. At seventeen years of as^e he 
entered Ohio University, and took the 
degrees of A.B. in 1861, and A.M. in 1864. 
The first call of President Lincoln led him to 
enlist in the 3d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Step by step he was promoted Sergeant, First 
Lieutenant, Adjutant, and finally to the rank 
of Captain. When nineteen years of age he 
received his call to the ministry, under the 
pastorate of William Taylor, and in connec- 
tion with the richest experience of his life. 
For a time he strongly resisted this convic- 
tion, but finally surrendered, and was licensed 
a local preacher at Middleport, in 1866. Kev. 
James H. Gardiner was then his pastor. Join- 
ing the Ohio Conference a year later he served 
several charges within its bounds, till in 1870 
he was transferred to Minnesota owing to his 
wife's ill health. Here, at Winona, he inau- 
gurated the erection of new church premises. 
The continued illness of his wife necessitated 
another transfer, this time to Jacksonville, 
111. During his first year on this charge his 
beloved partner triumphantly entered the 



final rest. He stayed the full term and built 
the beautiful Grace Church in that city. His 
labors in Evansville, Cincinnati, and Denver 
were tireless, and fruitful in the best of all 
results. He spent four years as Presiding 
Elder on Southern District, Colorado Confer- 
ence, and represented that body in the Gen- 
eral Conference of 1884. At this juncture he 
was chosen Agent of the Western Book Con- 
cern. The great success achieved in this 
sphere most amply justifies the wisdom of the 
selection. He was chairman of both the 
Building and Finance Committees of the 
Denver University, and superintended its rise 
from the first stone to the last nail of the 
original structure, and left it practically free 
from debt. 

The universities of Allegheny (Pa.) and 
Cornell (Iowa) simultaneously honored him 
with the degree of D.D. in 1883. To the 
many potent forces wielded by our Church 
to-day he has contributed a noble share. 



REV. EDMUND M. MILLS, Ph.D., 

one of the delegation from the Central New 
York Conference, was born at Bytown, Out,, 
January 17, 1848. When he was six years 
of age he went with his parents to California, 
where he lived till he was twenty. In 1868 
he came East and entered the Weslevan 
University at Middletown, Conn., and in 
1872 was graduated from that institution. 
He entered college with the intention of pre- 
paring for the practice of law, but his con- 
version at the beginning of his junior year 
changed his life-work. In April, 1872, before 
his graduation from college, he joined the 
Central New York Conference on trial. He 
has been eminently successful in various im- 
portant charges, and at the last session of his 
Conference was appointed to the First Church, 
Syracuse. In 1876 Syracuse University con- 
ferred upon him the degree of Ph.D., on 
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taiy of the Central New York Conference 
and trustee of Wesleyan University, positions 
he still holds. 

The First Church, Elraira, and the Brown 
Memorial Church, Syracuse, were built during 
his pastorate on these charges, and stand as 
monuments of his faithful labors. 



REV. ROBERT BENTLEY, D.D. 

Rev. Robert Bentley, D.D., who leads the 
clerical delegation of California Conference, 
was born in Cambridge, England, May 6, 
1838. He was trained in his early years in 
the " National School " of Cambridge. His 
parents desired to see him enter the univer- 
sity of his native town, but the removal of 
the family to this country in 1850 defeated 
the plan. He entered the North-western 
University in 1858, and was graduated in 
1862. He is an alumnus of the Garrett 
Biblical Institute. At Evanstou he was 
licensed to preach, and was admitted on trial 
as a preacher in the Rock River Conference 
in 1862. In 1864 he was ordained deacon, 
and elder two years later. Prominent ap- 
pointments for many years in the Rock River, 
Oregon, and California Conferences have 
been filled by Dr. Bentley, and be has mer- 
ited the popular esteem accorded him. 

At present he is Presiding Elder of the 
Oakland District. In 1880 lie was elected 
Chaplain of the House of Representatives at 
Sacramento. Also in the same year he was 
commissioned, by the Governor of California, 
Chaplain of the 1st Artillery Regiment, 4th 
Brigade. In 1876 he received the degree of 
D.D. from Willamette University. On the 
resignation of Dr. Gatch from the Willa- 
mette University, Salem, Ore., as also on the 
occasion of Dr. Stratton's resignation from 
the University of the Pacific, Dr. Bentley's 
candidacy was urged by influential friends of 
both institutions. He has preferred the 
sj there of the active ministry. 



JEROME I. STANTON, ESQ., 

lay delegate from Genesee Conference, is a 
native of Pennsylvania, having been born in 
Susquehanna County on November 18, 1841. 
It may be truthfully said of him, " He bore the 
yoke in his youth." Shortly after the removal 
of his parents to Wyoming County, in 1854, 
he was necessitated to begin his intimacy with 
hard work, which brought with it the scanty 
wage of six dollars per month. He continued 
at work in country stores until 1862, when he 
enlisted in the 17th Regiment Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Cavalry. He bravely remained at 
his post through nineteen engagements, and 
with the added experience of prison life in the 
winter of 1864-65. On returning to his reg- 
iment he was promoted to the rank of 
Sergeant-Major, and only dolfed his uniform 
for a more peaceful vocation when the war 
had closed. After his return home he en- 
gaged as traveling salesman for a large firm, 
and in 1871 succeeded his employers in the 
business, with headquarters at Painted Post, 
N. Y. 

In 1879 he engaged in the lumbering bus- 
iness, which he has developed to large dimen- 
sions, and in the same year his conversion took 
place under the pastorate of Rev. James Moss. 
He was one of the organizers of the Prohibi- 
tion Party in New York State, and is an 
earnest worker in this cause. A career so 
heavily handicapped and yet in its outgrowth 
rising to such achievements, combined as it is 
with simplicity and piety, deserves genuine 
admiration. 



THOMAS W. DURSTON, ESQ. 

Thomas W. Durston, lay delegate from 
Central New York', was born in Syracuse, 
N. Y., July 6, 1844, and received an academic 
education. He enlisted in the loth New 
York Volunteer Cavalry, and served two and 
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Spring, Va., December 25, 1864, and was en- 
gaged in a hand-to-hand saber-fight with 
Early's men in the Shenandoah Valley. 

He started in the book trade in 1865, and 
is the head of the firm of Thomas W. Durston 
& Co., who have one of the largest retail 
stores in the United States, and are also the 
depositors of the Methodist Book Concern for 
Central New York. 

Brothei' Durston is prominently identified 
with many noble works. He is at present the 
Secretary of the Onondaga Bible Society ; 
Trustee in the Hospital of the House of the 
Good Shepherd of Syracuse ; Trustee of the 
Woman's Christian Association of Onondaga 
County ; Treasurer of the Syracuse Univer- 
sity, and Trustee of the University Avenue 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Syracuse. 

He was elected a reserve delegate to the 
General Conferences of 1876 and 1880. 



AMOS SHINKLE, ESQ. 

The name of Amos Shinkle is one famous 
in our Church. This distinguished layman 
was born in Brown County, O., August 11, 
1818. His parents removed to Higginsport, 
O., in 1828. In 1886, his parents having 
limited resources, he entered upon the task 
of securing his own living. In 1842 he mar- 
ried Sarah Jane Hughes. Their only child, 
Bradford, was born in 1845, and still remains 
in the parental home. He removed in 1846 
to Covington, Ky., which is his present home. 
In this locality he engaged in the coal and 
steam-boat business, which proved very suc- 
cessful. He was active with others in the 
organization of the Covington and Cincinnati 
Suspension Bridge Company, and subsequent- 
ly in the erection of the bridge. By election 
in 1866 he was made President of the com- 
pany. Three years prior to this (1863) he 
was honored with the presidency of the Cov- 
ington Light Company. He abandoned his 
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ized the First National Bank of Covington, 
Ky., and was elected its President. He holds 
this office now, and many other important 
offices and trusts. It was in 1865 he united 
with Greenup Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and the same year was elected super- 
intendent of its Sunday-school, which position 
he still holds with efficiency. In 1872 he 
was chosen delegate to the General Conference, 
and has been re-elected a member of that 
body at every subsequent election. The same 
year (1872) he was a member of the Book 
Committee, and has remained a diligent and 
judicious worker in that relation. He is 
widely known for his business qualities, his 
generosity, and intense love of the Church of 
his choice. He represents the Kentucky Con- 
ference. 



REV. LUKE C. QUEAL, D.D. 

In a family numbering eight sons who 
reached manhood Rev. Luke C. Queal was 
fourth. The date of his birth was April 2, 
1827. His distinctive religious career began 
early in life. Converted December 13, 1841, 
and received on probation by Rev. A. E. 
Daniels, he henceforth applied himself with 
increased assiduity to prepare for a life of 
usefulness. He chose as his field the medical 
profession, and while engaged in pursuing the 
necessary studies concurrently exercised his 
gifts in the public means of grace. Becoming 
deeply convinced of his divine call to the 
ministry, he abandoned his chosen path, de- 
voted himself to Christian work and theolog- 
ical studies, and was duly admitted on trial at 
the Oneida Conference of 1854. Two years 
later he was received into full membershij:). 

After serving in the pastorate for eighteen 
years with commendable fidelity and success, 
he was elected Presiding Elder, the duties 
of which office he discharged for two full 
terms successively. As a tribute to his 
abilities and achievements, Hamilton College 
conferred on him the honorary degree of 




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D.D. in 1871. His first election to the Gen- 
eral Conference took place in 1864, as a re- 
serve delegate. Since then he has enjoyed 
the distinction of beino; a member of each 
succeeding General Conference without ex- 
ception. His brethren delight to thus attest 
their appreciation of one whose work and 
worth have rendered him widely endeared. 

In his own Conference (Central New York) 
Dr. Queal is accorded a high place as a wise 
leader in whom valued qualities combine, and 
as a man who has proved his unceasing de- 
votion to the best interests of the Church he 
has served so well. 



REV. HENRY J. LIEBHART, D.D. 

Henry J. Liebhart, of the Central German 
Conference, was born September 5, 1832, at 
Carlsruhe, Germany, and was carefully trained 
at the Lyceum of that city, and at Blaubeu- 
ren, Nuertingen, and Heidelberg. He came 
to America in 1854, and was converted and 
joined the Church at Saugerties, N. Y., the 
same year. Serving faithfully as local preach- 
er for some years, he entered the New York 
Conference in 1858, and was eminently suc- 
cessful in his charges. From 1865 to 1872 he 
acted as Assistant Editor of the Christliche 
Apologete. In 1872 a German Sunday-school 
and Tract Department and a monthly maga- 
zine were proposed by the General Confer- 
ence, and without a dissenting voice he was 
elected editor, supervising the entire depart- 
ment. These duties have been faithfully dis- 
charged ever since. Other books, papers, 
and tracts have demanded and received the 
careful editorial management and attention of 
the Doctor. He is translator of Stevens's His- 
tory of Methodism, and the literature of Ger- 
man Methodism has been brought to its pres- 
ent high standard largely by his efforts. He 
is Secretary of his Conference, has been elected 
three times to the General Conference, and 
twice as reserve. In 1881 he served as dele- 

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gate to the Ecumenical Conference at London. 
He has made extensive missionary tours. In 
1884 he was elected German Assistant Sec- 
retary of the Sunday-School Union, and was 
appointed on Committee of Revision of the 
German hymn-book, acting as chairman. He 
is President of the Board of Trustees of 
German Wallace College, and is fully identi- 
fied with all movements for the evangeliza- 
tion of our German fellow-citizens. 



Rev. JOHN B. WENTWORTH, D.D. 

This widely known Methodist minister was 
born August 29, 1823, in Bristol, N. H. His 
father was Richard Wentworth, Esq., who 
was of the sixth generation in descent from 
Elder William Wentworth, the first settler of 
the name in America. His mother's maiden 
name was Elizabeth Brodhead, sister of the 
late Rev. and Hon. John Brodhead, of New 
Hampshire. Both of Dr. Wentworth's grand- 
fathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary 
army. 

In 1844 he was matriculated in the Ver- 
mont University, being graduated in the full 
course with high honors in 1848. In 1851 he 
joined the Genesee Conference, and with the 
exception of two years, when serving the 
Church at Evanston, 111., has been a member 
of this Conference ever since. 

By the choice of his brethren he was se- 
lected to preach the sermon on the Centennial 
of Methodism before his Conference in 1866, 
which was published by the Book Concern 
under the title, The Philosophy of Methodism. 
He has been a trustee of Syracuse University 
for many years. 

Dr. Wentworth was honored in 1864 with 
the degree of D.D. from the University of 
Vermont. He has been six times elected to 
the General Conference. In 1886 his work 
on The Logic of Introspection was published, 
of which work the scholarly Dr. Deems, in 
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most important contributions lately made to 
mental science, and deserves to be read by 
all thinkers." 

Dr. Wentwortli is noted for force of char- 
acter and breadth of thought, and his attain- 
ments in the domain of theology demand for 
his opinions universal respect. 



REV. ANDREW JACKSON BIGELOW, 

delegate from Detroit Conference, was born 
in Madison County, N. Y., in 1832. About 
a year afterward his parents moved to the 
then Territory of Michigan, which was at that 
time an almost unbroken wilderness. When 
he was eight years old his father was re- 
moved by death, and he returned with his 
mother to New York State. A few years 
later he again went to Michigan, where he 
has since resided. He was converted at the 
asre of ten, and united with the Church. For 
a while he attended school in Romeo, and 
afterward at the old Academy at Lodi Plains, 
where he prepared for college. He entered 
Michigan University in 1851, and pursuing 
the regular classical course was graduated at 
the age of twenty-two, and took his second 
degree three years later. 

He united with the Michigan Conference 
in 1855, and the next year, the Conference 
being divided, he was consigned to the De- 
troit. He has filled some of the best appoint- 
ments, and has also served as Presiding Elder 
on both the Port Huron and Saginaw' Dis- 
tricts. 

Brother Bigelow brings to his pulpit min- 
istrations the result of years of earnest study 
in the departments of general literature, sci- 
ence, and philosophy, as well as in theology. 
He possesses rare executive ability, besides 
standing high in the estimation of his breth- 
ren as a disciplinarian and as an expounder 
of Methodist law and doctrine, and is yet in 
the vigor of his intellectual and physical 
manhood. 



REV. DE WITT C. HUNTINGTON, D.D. 

De Witt C. Huntington, of the Genesee 
Conference, was born in Townsend, Vt., April 
27, 1830. His father was a lawyer, and he 
was the eighth in a family of nine children. 
Pie was brought to Christ in boyhood through 
the influence of a Christian mother — a woman 
of such exemplary character and life that 
after her death he could say of her, " I never 
saw her angry, nor can I recollect a word 
from her lips which indicated ill-temper." At 
the age of seventeen he united with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. In 1851 he was re- 
ceived on trial into the Vermont Conference, 
and in 1857 was transferred to East Genesee. 
Since that time the ministry of Dr. Hunting- 
ton has been mainly in Western New York, 
being twice Presiding Elder in that section. 
He was a delegate to the General Conference 
first in 1868, and has been elected a member 
of every General Conference since that time. 
In 1881 he was appointed a member of the 
Methodist Ecumenical Conference in London, 
during which summer he, with his wife, made 
a somewhat extended trip through Europe. 
His manly position on the temperance ques- 
tion marked him early as a leader, and his en- 
ergetic championship has commanded recog- 
nition in all movements pertaining to State 
and national prohibition. 



REV. ARCHIBALD J. PORTER. 

Rev. Archibald J. Porter, delegate from 
Virginia Conference, spent his youth in Balti- 
more City, Md., where he was born Decem- 
ber 23, 1827. His father was born in Ireland, 
and from him and his excellent mother he 
has been in many ways favored with a goodly 
heritage. He was converted, and united with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, when yet in 
his early boyhood. 

His entrance to the work of the ministry 
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ber of the Baltimore Conference. Bishop 
Simpson ordained him deacon, and in 1862 
he was ordained elder by Bishop Levi Scott. 
His work in the pastorate has been marked 
by much zeal and a large measure of success. 
By the brethren associated with him he has 
always been held in warm esteem. He was 
delegate to the General Conference in 1876, 
and has served in the Presiding Eldership for 
eight years. 

As he was stationed at Leesburg, Va., in 
1868, when the General Conference cut off 
that portion of Baltimore Conference and in- 
cluded it in the Virginia Conference, then or- 
ganized, he became by this change a member 
of the Conference in which he has since la- 
bored and which he has just been elected to 
represent. Both as pastor and Presiding Elder 
he has gained for himself a good record and 
won many friends. 



ADNA B. LEONARD, D.D. 

Adna B. Leonard, of the Cincinnati Con- 
ference, is the son of John and Nancy Leonard, 
and was born August 2, 1837, in Mahoning 
County, Ohio. His early educational advan- 
tages were such as the common schools 
afforded, supplemented with a course of study 
in the Union High School of Alliance, 
Ohio. 

He was converted in 1856, and was re- 
ceived into the Pittsburg Conference in 1860. 
His ministerial life has been divided between 
the pastorate and the Presiding Eldership, 
twenty-two and a half years in the former 
and five and a half years in the latter. He is 
now the esteemed pastor of Green Street 
Church in Piqua, Ohio. 

In 1879 he received the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity from the New Orleans University, 
and in 1881 the degree of Master of Arts 
(pro merito) from Mount Union College. 

He is prominently identified with the Pro- 
hibition movement, and in 1885 was the can- 



didate of the Prohibition Party of Ohio for 
the office of Governor. 

He was a member of the General Confer- 
ence of 1884, and served with such accept- 
ability to his Conference as to command a 
re-election. 



THOMAS JONES, ESQ. 

Thomas Jones was born March 9, 181-1, 
in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England. 
When ten years old he came with relatives to 
America and located in Troy, N. Y. Here he 
learned the molder's trade, and at the age 
of twenty-two entered into a co-partnership 
known as Foxell, Woodworth &, Jones, at 
Troy, for the manufacture of hollow- ware. 

From Troy he removed in 1877 to Auburn, 
N. Y., and resumed the same business under 
the firm name of Jones &> Merritt. His re- 
markable energy and business ability insured 
his success, and in July, 1887, he retired from 
active business. 

Mr. Jones lias traveled largely in this and 
other countries, and three years ago made a 
trip through Palestine and into Egypt. He 
has been actively connected with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church since he was eighteen 
years of age. He is a representative from the 
Central New York Conference. 



REV. PETER F. SCHNEIDER 

was born in Hohen Solms, in Prussia, on 
October 12, 1825. His parents emigrated to 
this country in 1831, and settled in Crawford 
County, O. The celebrated Dr. William Nast, 
father of German missions and founder of 
German Methodist literature, had a regular 
appointment at his father's house in the year 
1836. The influences exerted in these meet- 
ings soon bore fruit, and anions; others Mr. 
Schneider was converted, in his fourteenth 
year. In the first German love-feast held in 
that locality he was received into the Church 



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by Rev. Peter Schmucker. Receiving a 
license to preach in 1848, he started on his 
ministerial career by filling appointments on 
the Delaware and Galion Mission, under the 
Presiding Elder. He was received on trial 
into the Ohio Conference in 18-19, and a year 
later was ordained deacon by Bishop Janes. 
Under his pastorate at Toledo a gracious re- 
vival took place which resulted in a number 
of conversions, and led to the formation of 
the first German class there. Some of his ap- 
pointments have been at Cleveland, Detroit, 
Delaware, Toledo, Evansville, etc., in all of 
which his work has been marked by pains- 
taking zeal, and attended and crowned with 
a large measure of success. He has twice 
been appointed Presiding Elder, once for the 
Michigan District, and more recently on the 
district of Louisville, Ky. 

In 1873 he was elected Vice-President and 
Financial Agent of German Wallace College, 
at Berea, O., an office in which his lengthened 
experience, varied gifts, and executive ability 
have found an appropriate sphere, and where 
he wields an influence of wide-spread and 
undying importance. He is a delegate from 
Central German Conference. 



REV. WILLIAM BRUSH, D.D. 

This eminent minister, whom his brethren 
of the Dakota Conference at their last session 
chose as their representative, was born in New 
Fairfield, Conn., February 19, 1827. He was 
reared under Congregational influences, and 
was converted in the fall of 1845, while at the 
Amenia (N. Y.) Seminary. He spent the 
freshman year at Wesleyan University, and 
was graduated from Yale College in 1850, 
among the first in his class. He joined the 
New York Conference in the following spring, 
and seven years later was transferred to 
the Upper Iowa Conference. In 1860 he was 
chosen President of the Upper Iowa Univer- 
sity, which position he held for ten years, 



when he resigned and became Presiding Elder 
on Charles City District. In 1873 he was 
transferred to West Texas Conference, where 
for eight years he did vigorous and heroic 
work, superintending large districts and 
building and dedicating churches. 

Dr. Brush is now President of Dakota 
University, at Mitchell, Dak., the only insti- 
tution under the auspices of Methodism for all 
that magnificent Territory. His rare scholar- 
ship and superior tact in management admi- 
rably qualify him for his responsibility. He 
has been a member of four previous General 
Conferences. In 1872 he received many votes 
for the episcopacy. He has served two quad- 
renniums as a member of the Book Commit- 
tee. The Doctor has thus had, and worthily, 
a favorable Church recognition. 



REV. THEODORE L. FLOOD, D.D. 

Theodore L. Flood, of Erie Conference, was 
born February 20, 1842, in Williamsburg, Pa. 
He received his early education in the 
Williamsburg Academy, and was afterward 
for two years a private pupil of Dr. Ulysses 
Hewitt. He was converted in his sixteenth 
year. He served nine months in the army as 
First Sergeant and Lieutenant, and was in the 
battle of Antietam and Chaucellorsville. 
Leaving the army he entered the Theological 
School at Concord, N. H. In 1864 he joined 
the New T Hampshire Conference, serving as 
a pastor until 1874. His last appointment 
in this Conference was as Presiding Elder of 
the Concord District, In 1874 he was elected 
President of the New Hampshire State Sun- 
day-School Convention. In 1875 he was 
transferred to t he Erie Conference, and served 
several leading churches as pastor. 

In 1876 Dr. Flood started the Chau- 
tavqua Assembly Herald, and in 1880 estab- 
lished at Meadville, Pa., The Chautauquan, 
the official organ of the Chautauqua Literary 
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circulation of 60,000 copies. In 1882, finding 
his health failing under combined pastoral and 
editorial duties, he decided to devote his en- 
tire attention to the magazine. He has, how- 
ever, remained in active Church work, filling 
one year a vacant pulpit in Titusville, Pa. 

Dr. Flood received the degree of Master of 
Arts in 1876 from the Ohio Weslyan Univer- 
sity, and in 1881 was made a Doctor of 
Divinity by Mount Union College. He has 
been three times a delegate to General Con- 
ference, twice at the head of his delegation. 
He has published, anonymously, A Hundred 
Ministers and How They Switched Off, two 
volumes of lectures, and, in connection with 
the Rev. Dr. J. W. Hamilton of Boston, the 
Lives of the Methodist Bishops. He has trav- 
eled extensively in this country and Europe. 



REV. LEWIS P. DAVIS, B.D. 

Lewis P. Davis, delegate from Detroit Con- 
ference, was born in Macomb County, Mich., 
December 31, 1839. By the accidental death 
of his father, when he was three months old, 
his mother was left a widow with nine 
children in a new and heavily timbered 
country. His early educational advantages 
were therefore small. 

He was converted in June, 1862, and soon 
became deeply impressed with a conviction of 
his duty to preach the Gospel. But, hearing 
the call of Mr. Lincoln for 300,000 more men, 
he enlisted August 9, 1862, in the 22d Mich- 
igan Infantry, serving with honor as Piivate, 
Sergeant, Major, and Lieutenant, and mustered 
out at the close of the war, in June, 1865. 
After a five-years' course of study he was 
graduated from the North- Western University 
as A.B. in June, 1872, and received the degree 
of A.M. three years later. He was also grad- 
uated from Garrett Biblical Institute in May, 
1873, receiving the degree of B.D. 

Brother Davis joined the Detroit Confer- 
ence in September, 1873, and has been very 



successful in all his ministerial work, partic- 
ularly in his service as Presiding Elder on the 
Alpena District, his term ending at the last 
session of his Conference, when he was ap- 
pointed to the Lincoln Avenue Church, 
Detroit. 



REV. J. THOMAS McFARLAND, D.D., 

who leads the Iowa Conference delegation, 
was born in Indiana, January 2, 1851. His 
parents removed to Iowain 1853, and he was 
educated at Iowa Wesleyan University and 
Simpson College, being graduated A.B. from 
the latter in 1872. He spent the year of 
1872-73 at the School of Theology of Bos- 
ton University, and was admitted into the 
Iowa Conference in September, 1873. In the 
fall of 1876 he returned to the School of 
Theology, remaining two years. He re- 
entered the Iowa Conference in 1878, and in 
the following year was transferred to Central 
Illinois Conference. In 1880 he was ap- 
pointed to First Church, Peoria, serving two 
years, at the end of which he was elected 
Vice-President and Professor of Belles-Lettres 
and History in Iowa Wesleyan University. 

In 1874 he was honored by election to the 
Presidency of the University, which position 
he still holds, and for which he is eminently 
qualified, possessing in a rare degree the char- 
acteristics of the model educator. His degree 
of D.D. was conferred upon him by the Uni- 
versity of the Pacific in 1875. 



CHARLES RICHARDS BROWN, ESQ., 

of St. Ignace, Mich., who is one of the lay 
delegates from Detroit Conference, is a native 
of Columbia, O., having been born there 
December 4, 1836. In his youth he received 
a good education at Baldwin Institute, Berea, 
O., and made such use of his privileges that 
at the early age of seventeen he filled the 



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position of Principal of Freedom Academy in 
Portage County. 

He figured yet more prominently before the 
public in 1855, in connection with the publi- 
cation of a paper entitled Pare Grit. Choos- 
ing the legal profession, he was admitted to 
the bar in 1856. Determined to excel in his 
profession, and bringing to bear on his work 
great natural ability united with intense ap- 
plication, it is not to be wondered at that he 
enjoyed the distinction of being promoted to 
fill responsible offices. Amongst these may 
be noted those of Circuit Court Commissioner, 
member of State Legislature, and Judge of the 
Ninth Judicial Circuit, the latter of which he 
retained for six years. He is also widely known 
as a writer of several text-books on Civil Gov- 
ernment, and editor of two volumes of Mich- 
igan Nisi Prius Reports. 

Several years ago he resigned his position 
on the bench to engage in the practice of law 
at Port Huron, where he resided until 1881, 
the date of his removal to his present home in 
St. Isfnace. Throughout his entire career he 
has been an active, prominent, and useful 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
The deep and growing interest he has shown 
for her prosperity has not been confined to 
merely local limits. For several years he acted 
as trustee of Albion College, and was del- 
egate to the General Conference of 1872. A 
Republican in politics, he has stumped the 
State many times for his party. 



REV. JOHN E. WILLIAMS. 

John E. Williams was born in Canada in 
the year 1844. Fie came of pure Methodist 
stock, his father being at present one of the 
General Superintendents of the Methodist 
Church of Canada. Fie received part of his 
education at Victoria University, and entered 
the School of Theology of Boston University 
in 1869, being graduated in 1872. In the 
autumn of that year he joined the Central 



New York Conference, and when the bound- 
ary lines of this body were changed he became 
a member of the Genespe. After four three- 
years 1 pastorates he is at present the honored 
and devoted pastor of Plymouth Church, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 

At the last session of his Conference he was 
chosen delegate to the General Conference b}^ 
a large vote, his brethren thus attesting their 
appreciation of his high character and valua- 
ble services to the Church. 



ISAAC BAILEY, ESQ. 

Isaac Bailey, Esq., who leads the lay dele- 
gation from Central Illinois Conference, was 
bora in Delhi, Delaware County, N. Y. His 
parents belonged to the farming class, and 
happily exemplified " diligence in business " 
with fervency of spirit in serving the Lord. 
Through the allotments of Providence he 
had early to know the discipline of trial and 
difficulty. He was but six years of age when 
his father died. A pious and energetic 
mother, however, spared no pains in seeking 
to equip her son for the battle of life by the 
bestowment of a sound religious training. 
Leaving the parental home at the age of fif- 
teen, he commenced his business career as 
clerk in a dry-goods store in the city of 
Albany, N. Y. Flere his energy and industry 
soon secured for him the reward of promo- 
tion to the position of proprietor. He married 
Miss M. L. Borthwick, of Albany, about this 
time, and soon after husband and wife were 
happily converted, and joined the old Wash- 
ington Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. 
From this date he evinced the deepest inter- 
est in the prosperity of Zion, and cheerfully 
took his full share of responsible toil at the 
cost of no little self-sacrifice. No pressure of 
business deterred him from acting out the 
apostolic principle of Eph. vi, 7, 8. During 
his residence at Albany he rendered impor- 
tant service in each of the following depart- 



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ments ; namely, secretary to the several 
church boards, steward, class-leader, trustee, 
and Sunday-school superintendent. He tilled 
the last four of these offices at once for many 
years. Full scope was here provided for the 
exercise of the intense earnestness, tact, en- 
terprise, and other good qualities of head and 
heart for which he has grown conspicuous. 
In the year 1877 he removed to Gilman, 111. 
It is gratifying to find that his Church work 
has suffered no abatement with the change, 
but continues to be as varied in scope and as 
enthusiastic in execution as it was amid the 
scenes of earlier labors. 



Rev. THOMAS McKENDREE STUART. 

Thomas McKendree Stuart, of the Des 
Moines Conference, was born May 19, 1843, 
near Williamsburg, Pa. When he was nine 
years of age his parents removed to West 
Virginia. In 1851 his father entered the 
ministry in the West Virginia Conference, 
and four years later, during his father's pas- 
torate in Oakland, Md., he was converted, 
and united with the Church. In the sum- 
mer of 1864 he enlisted in Captain William 
Logsdon's company of Independent Scouts, 
and was an Orderly Sergeant in that service 
until mustered out in 1865. In the latter 
year he was admitted into the Des Moines 
Conference. In 1868, while in charge of Elk 
Point Circuit, in Dakota, he was elected 
Superintendent of Public Instruction for that 
Territory. During his pastorate at Monroe 
(1870-73) he finished the classical curriculum 
of Simpson College, and in 1872 was gradu- 
ated A.B. The degree of A.M. was con- 
ferred upon him in cursu in 1875. From 
1879-83 he was Presiding Elder on Chariton 
District, and since 1885 has been in charge of 
Corning District. He was elected on the 
first ballot to represent his brethren in the 
General Conference of 1884. 

Brother Stuart is an able preacher, and by 



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a systematic course of study he has attained 
to marked proficiency in Hebrew, Greek, 
Latin, and the natural sciences. 



HENRY F. KETRON, ESQ. 

Henry F. Ketron was born near Arcadia, 
Sullivan County, Tenn., in 1847, and received 
educational advantages at Reedy Creek 
Academy and Kingsley Seminary. His par- 
ents were unable to give him the benefits of 
a collegiate education, and he spent several 
years in teaching and other employment, and 
then resumed his studies at Kingsley Semi- 
nary in 1877, preparatory to entering college. 
At the Grant Memorial University, in 1881, 
he graduated in the classical course. Many 
were his discouragements in efforts to secure 
an education, chiefly want of means. In the 
year of his graduation he was elected to take 
charge of Brown Seminary, at Leicester, N. C, 
which institution belongs to the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. After three years of un- 
tiring and successful labor, on account of im- 
paired health he resigned, and engaged in 
other vocations. He was again called to the 
Principalship of the School, though changed 
to Leicester Seminary in 1887, which position 
he now holds, doing most excellent service. 
He is the lay delegate from Blue Ridge 
Conference. 



Rev. ROBERT S. BORLAND. 

Robert S. Borland was born in Rockland, 
Venango County, Pa., June 17, 1836. His 
parentage was Presbyterian. He was con- 
verted at the age of eighteen, at a camp- 
meeting near his mother's home. He was 
educated at Allegheny College and was grad- 
uated with the degree of A.B. in 1859, and 
received that of A.M. in cursu. 

Although conscious of a call to the min- 
istry, he spent the succeeding eight years in 



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secular employments, principally in teaching. 
Yielding at last to the repeated solicita- 
tions of his pastors, he was granted a license 
to preach by the Quarterly Conference of 
Warsaw, 111., in January, 1865. He entered 
the Erie Conference in July, 1867, and his 
ministry has been attended with uniform suc- 
cess. At the close of his term as Presiding 
Elder of Jamestown District, at the last Con- 
ference session, he was honored by election 
to the General Conference. He is now pastor 
of the important charge of Sharon, Pa., which 
has a membership of five hundred, with a 
large and interesting congregation. 



Rev. JACOB ROTHWEILER, D.D. 

On December 3, 1824, Jacob Rothweiler 
was bora in Berghausen, Grand Duchy of 
Baden, Germany. He came with his parents 
to New York in 1834. His religious experi- 
ence dates from Christmas Day, 1841, when 
he was soundly converted, and immediately 
after united with the Church. In 1846 he was 
licensed to preach, in New York, by the late 
Dr. P. P. Sanford, who was then Presiding 
Elder, and in the fall of that year was re- 
ceived on trial in the Ohio Conference, and 
has since been continually in the active work. 
In 1855 he was appointed Presiding Elder of 
the North Ohio District, and, recognizing the 
need of a German educational institution, he 
secured the establishment of the German 
Wallace College in Berea. During the war 
he was instrumental in the founding of the 
"German Methodist Orphan Asylum of 
Berea, O.," the first institution of its kind 
under the auspices of our Church in this 
country. 

Dr. Rothweiler was a member of all the 
General Conferences from 1864 to 1876 in- 
clusive, and of the Book Committee from 
1868 to 1872. He was one of the General 
Missionary Committee for the quadrennium 
ending in 1876. He has done grand service 



in advancing the work of the Church among 
his countrymen in our land, and is now fillinof 
a fourth term as a Presiding Elder. He is 
the leader of the Central German Conference 
deputation. 



GEORGE P. HUKILL, ESQ. 

One of the lay delegates from Erie Confer- 
ence is George P. Hukill, who was born near 
Odessa, Del., October 10, 1848. He received 
an academic education, and began life for him- 
self at the age of sixteen. A few years later 
(1868), while attending Grace Church, "Wil- 
mington, Del., under the pastorate of the late 
celebrated Rev. Alfred Cookman, he was born 
into the kingdom of God. In 1870 he became 
connected with Trinity Church, Oil City, with 
which he has since been actively identified. 
During these eighteen years he has been en- 
gaged in different branches of the petroleum 
trade, producing, buying, shipping, etc., 
though since 1873 he has been largely inter- 
ested in developing and supplying natural 
gas to consumers in Pittsburg and vicinity. 
Brother Hukill is an earnest worker for 
Christ and Methodism, serving in every place 
where a layman is called to labor. He is 
also prominently interested in the Young 
Men's Christian Association of his State, at 
present serving on the State Executive Com- 
mittee. He is a trustee of Allegheny Col- 
lege and of the Musical Conservatory con- 
nected therewith. 



REV. W. JOHN MCKAY. 

Rev. W. John McKay, delegate from West 
Wisconsin Conference, was born in County 
Down, Ireland, May 29, 1847, whence he emi- 
grated to this country at five years of age. 
He settled in Wisconsin, and has since re- 
sided within the bounds of that State. The 
training and associations of his early life 



R. Brown. 




A. Seeff.i.d. 




E. P. ALBERT. 




E. Persons. 




S. O. SWACKHAMER. 




Samuel McGerald. 




H. S. Vaughn. 




T. McK. Stuart. 




G. W. Gue. 




Matthias A. Hewes. 




Robert Forbes. 




W. S. Turner. 




Washington G. Ai.len. 




E. A. Simons. 

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Eouis Paine. 




Thomas W. Durston. 




'LATE IP 



James H. Potts. 

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were decidedly religious and Methodistic. 
The chief part of his education was received 
in the North- Western University. On the 
outbreak of the Civil War he became a 
volunteer, enlisting in the 44th Wisconsin 
Infantry. Under the ministry of the Rev. 
H. J. Walker he was converted in 1869, and 
after passing through the usual stages re- 
ceived charge of a circuit under the direction 
of Rev. W. F. Delap, Presiding Elder, in 
1870. Two years later he was received 
into full membership with the Conference. 
Out of the eleven different appointments he 
has served, five were circuits, five stations, 
and one a Presiding Eldership. Upon every 
detail of his work he has brought to bear 
lofty inspirations and painstaking thorough- 
ness. As a judicious administrator and ear- 
nest worker he has won a good reputation. 

He was elected delegate to the General 
Conference of 1884, and is at present pastor 
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Madison, Wis. 



Rev. GEORGE W. BRINDELL, 

delegate from Upper Iowa Conference, was 
born of Methodist parents in Philadelphia, 
February 22, 1831. Both his grandfathers, 
Rev. James Brindell and Rev. David Abbott, 
were Methodist preachers. At the age of 
eleven he was converted, and joined the 
Church under the ministry of Rev. J. S. 
Inskip. Two institutions shared as factors in 
the work of his education ; namely, Grammar 
and Central High Schools, Pa., and Biblical 
Institute at Concord, N. H. He was admit- 
ted on trial to Philadelphia Conference in 
1850, and ordained deacon and elder by Bish- 
ops Janes and Ames. The first ten years of 
his ministry were spent in this Conference. 
He was compelled to seek transfer to Upper 
Iowa on account of impaired health, and with 
the exception of one year spent in California 
he has expended his labors in Upper Iowa. 

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Although repeatedly offered district work he 
invariably declined its acceptance on the 
score of health. True to his strong ambition 
to excel as a pastor, he has for thirty-six years 
steadily bent his energies in that direction, 
and with very distinct results. Many souls 
have been added to the Church under his 
ministry, notably in his last two charges, 
Manchester and Iowa City. He has been a 
member of the National Camp-meeting Asso- 
ciation for the Promotion of Holiness for the 
past six years, and for warm devotion to the 
best interests of our work is known to a wide 
circle. 



REV. JOHN COLLINS JACKSON, Jr., 

delegate from Ohio, was born of Methodist 
parentage in Fairfield, Ohio, June 14, 1850. 
In his sixteenth year he was converted, and 
united with the Church. When twenty years 
of age he was licensed to preach, and, to be 
the more thoroughly equipped for his life- 
work, was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan 
University in 1874. He entered the Ohio 
Conference in 1876, and was stationed for his 
first charge at Third Street, Columbus, where 
he spent three years. His subsequent charges 
have been at St. Paul's, Delaware; Third 
Avenue, Columbus; and Bigelow Chapel, 
Portsmouth. He was happily united in mar- 
riage with Miss Eva See, November 25, 1879. 
At present he is Presiding Elder for the Co- 
lumbus District. Under his pastoral care 
many church debts have been raised, salaries 
in every instance increased, and the new 
church in Third Avenue, Columbus, erected. 
He has remained for three years on each 
charge to which he has been appointed, a fact 
which, when taken in connection with his 
own ability and faithfulness, largely accounts 
for the general improvement in all the inter- 
ests committed to his care. 

He is an accomplished scholar, and has 
traveled extensively in European and Oriental 



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countries. Perhaps the most noteworthy and 
gratifying feature of his ministerial career is 
the fact that he has never been a year with- 
out revival. From recognition of his special 
success in this all-important sphere, he was 
made one of the superintendents of Ohio 
Conference Camp-meeting, and for three years 
he has rendered valued service in that ca- 
pacity. 



LESLIE M. SHAW, ESQ. 

Leslie M. Shaw, Esq., a well-known lawyer 
within the bounds of Des Moines Conference, 
was born in Lamoille County, Vt., in 1848. 
At twenty-one he went to Iowa, and was grad- 
uated from Cornell College in 1874 and from 
the Iowa College of Law in 1876. The same 
year he located at Denison, la. From 1877 
to 1885 he was associated with Hon. J. P. 
Connor. In 1885 Mr. Connor was elected 
District Judge, and Mr. Shaw took into part- 
nership a Mr. Kuehnle, with whom he is now 
associated. 

Besides a growing law practice the firm 
has invested vast sums in farm loans for 
Eastern clients. Mr. Shaw has been a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 
1872, and has evinced great love for the 
Church. He has been almost constantly 
superintendent of the Sabbath-school, and 
still holds that position. He is also class- 
leader, trustee, steward, and chorister. In the 
great growth of the Church in his locality he 
has been an active and zealous worker. 



SILAS J. WILLIAMS, ESQ. 

Silas J. Williams, lay delegate from the 
East Ohio Conference, was born at Cone- 
maugh Station, near Johnstown, Pa., Decem- 
ber 5, 1844. His father, a native of Wales, 
had been a member of the Wesleyan Church, 
and was a member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church at Johnstown at the time of his 



death, in 1859. His mother was a Scotch 
Presbyterian. At his father's death he found 
it necessary to make his own w r ay in life, and 
after serving a proper apprenticeship in teleg- 
raphy he entered the employ of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad Company, and later that of 
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail- 
way, holding various important positions. In 
1875 he bought an interest in a large manu- 
facturing concern at Alliance, Ohio, known as 
the Hammer Works. He severed his connec- 
tion in 1883 to become treasurer of the newly 
organized Solid Steel Company, which position 
he at present retains. 

Brother Williams united with the church 
at Alliance about 1868, and has remained a 
faithful and active member, aiding in every 
good work. 



JOHN W. LACEY, Esq., 

lay delegate from Colorado Conference, is a 
native of Randolph County, Indiana, where 
he was born on October 13, 1848. His par- 
rents, who still survive, are devoted Meth- 
odists, and his father an active member of 
the North Indiana Conference. Part of his 
early life was spent in the ranks of the Union 
army during the Civil War. At its close he 
directed his attention to the realms of scholar- 
ship, entered Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) 
University, and was graduated A.B. in 1871. 
For two years from this date he filled the 
chair of Professor of Mathematics in Quincy 
College, Quincy, 111. He vacated this po- 
sition in favor of the Superintendency of 
Public Schools at Noblesville, Ind., the duties 
of which he discharged in 1873 and 1874. 
During the latter year he obtained the degree 
of A.M. from his alma mater. After quali- 
fying for the legal profession he was admitted 
to the bar in 1875 at Marion, Ind., where he 
enjoyed an extensive practice for nine years 
consecutively. Promotion to a higher sphere 
led to his removal to Wyoming in 1884, at 
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of the Supreme Court of the Territory by 
President Arthur. Two years ago he re- 
signed his position on the bench and renewed 
the practice of law. True to his youthful 
training, and determined to secure the highest 
of all possibilities, Mr. Lacey sought and ob- 
tained converting grace when yet in his 
twenty-first year. Since his union with the 
church at Greencastle, Ind., in 1869, a warm 
love for her interests has grown with his 
growth. For many years he has served as 
Sunday-school superintendent, and otherwise 
rendered important and willing aid to every 
cause needing assistance. 



REV. JAMES M. SHUMPERT. 

Rev. James Morris Shumpert, delegate 
from Mississippi Conference, has had this 
honor conferred on him for the third time 
successively thus early in his career. He is 
but thirty-five years of age, having been born 
in Itawamba County, Miss., March 23, 1853. 
Soon after his conversion he was called to the 
ministry, and in 1872 was licensed to preach 
while a student of Rust University, Holly 
Springs, Miss. He was ordained deacon by 
Bi>hop Gilbert Haven, and elder by Bishop 
Wiley. His charges have been at North 
Mount Pleasant, Ripley, Oxford, Holly 
Springs, and Grenada. He was but twenty- 
seven years of age when he was elected 
chairman of the delegation from his Confer- 
ence to the General Conference held at Cin- 
cinnati eight years ago, and was probably the 
youngest member in that assembly. He was 
appointed Presiding Elder over the Okolona 
District by Bishop Foss, and now holds the 
same position over the Meridian District. 
The high indorsements which have thus been 
placed on his character and abilities cannot 
well be surpassed as testimonies of what has 
been achieved, and may be interpreted as in- 
dicating wider possibilities yet to come. 



Rev. MATTHIAS A. HEWES. 

Matthias Avise Hewes, a member of the 
delegation from the Illinois Conference, was 
born in Quincy, 111., December 1, 1836. His 
parents were natives of New Jersey, and 
moved to Illinois in June of that year. He 
was educated at the Payson Academy, and 
was converted in 1851. In January, 1856, at 
the age of nineteen, he was licensed to exhort, 
and in the same year was received on trial by 
the Annual Conference which met at Quincy. 
Many gracious revivals have attended his 
ministry. In 1883 he was appointed Presid- 
ing Elder of the Griggs ville District, and 
after an efficient service of four years in this 
office was, at the last session of his Confer- 
ence, appointed to the pastorate of the church 
at Carrollton. 

Brother Hewes is a true and able Gos- 
pel preacher and an indefatigable worker. He 
has served the Annual Conference as statis- 
tical secretary for twelve years and as secre- 
tary for seven years, declining a re-election in 
1880. He served, however, as assistant sec- 
retary and editor of the Minutes until ap- 
pointed Presiding Elder. 



REV. SABIN HALSEY, B.D. 

Rev. Sabin Halsey, delegate from Wiscon- 
sin Conference, now returns in that capacity 
to his native State, New York. He was 
born at Irwin, N. Y., December 22, 1843, 
and converted at Columbus, Wis., 1866. 
With a view to entering the ministry he re- 
ceived a thorough collegiate training at 
Evanston, 111. From Garrett Biblical Insti- 
tute he was graduated B.D. in 1870. He 
united with the Wisconsin Conference in 
1869, has filled several important charges 
within its borders, and maintained an un- 
broken connection with it since then. In sev- 
eral of his appointments he remained for the 
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the position of Presiding Elder, and has 
charge of the Milwaukee District at present. 
For a period of five years he was assistant 
secretary of his own Conference, and has 
ably discharged the duties of secretary for 
seven years. He was elected to the General 
Conference of 1884, and was accorded the 
high distinction of serving there under Dr. 
Monroe as assistant secretary. His abilities 
have brought him conspicuously to the front 
while yet in the prime of life, and his wis- 
dom and effectiveness as a Conference official 
have caused him to be deservedly held in 
high esteem. 



WILLIAM ST. JOHN, ESQ. 

William St. John, Es<|., who stands the 
first as lay representative from the Central 
Ohio Conference, was born in Otsego County, 
N. Y., December 1, 1826. At the early age 
of nine he moved with his parents to Huron 
(now Erie) County, O. At twenty he came 
under religious influences which led to his 
conversion. He united at that time with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Sandusky 
City, the Rev. E. R. Jewett pastor. On the 
22d of February, 1849, he was married. Tn 
1859, November 22, he moved to Toledo. Mr. 
St. John has always been observant of the 
work to be done in the cause of his heavenly 
Master, and has sought faithfully to do it. 
His religious life has been peculiarly bright. 
He is a modest man, and the records of his 
life attest his usefulness, and the honor con- 
ferred upon him the great esteem in which 
lie is held. 



Rev. ISAIAH BENJAMIN SCOTT. 

On the first ballot, by a vote of fifty- 
three out of sixty-six, was Isaiah Benjamin 
Scott elected a member of the General Con- 
ference. He was born of free parents near 
Midway, "Woodford County, Ky., September 
30, 1854. His parents' names were Benjamin 



and Polly. His father had been freed by his 
master, who was his father, and his mother 
was left free by her master as a reward for 
faithfulness in attending him during a pro- 
tracted illness. In 1866 his father died, and 
his mother moved to Texas in the spring of 
the following year. From 1864 to 1871 he 
attended the primary schools of Kentucky 
and Texas, and shortly thereafter (1873) 
Avent to what is now Clark University, At- 
lanta, Ga. After preparation for the college 
classes he was transferred to the Central 
Tennessee College, where he graduated with 
the degree of A.B. in 1880. Since that time 
he has received the degree of M.A. At the 
Tennessee Conference he was assigned to the 
Nashville Circuit, In 1881 he married Miss 
Mattie J. Evans, of Franklin, Tenn., and the 
same year was transferred to the Texas Con- 
ference. During the year the State Board 
appointed him teacher in the Texas State 
Normal School, but on the assembling of the 
Conference he resigned the position to take 
an appointment. Three of the leading ap- 
pointments of his Conference he has filled 
with marked ability. He is now Presiding 
Elder of the Marshall District, Bishop Peck 
ordained him a deacon in 1882, and Bishop 
Harris an elder in 1884. 



DE LAFAYETTE MUSSELMAN, ESQ., 

lay delegate of Illinois Conference, is well- 
known as principal of one of the largest and 
most successful schools in the Western 
States. It is situate at Quincy, in his native 
State, Illinois. He was born in Fulton County 
on the 21st of April, 1842. In acquiring an 
education he had to contend with great diffi- 
culties. The means at his disposal and the 
advantages within his reach were of the 
scantiest kind. By dint of perseverance and 
the diligent use of spare moments he man- 
aged to familiarize himself with the rucli- 
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Civil War he enlisted in the 85th Illinois In- 
fantry and received important promotion 
during his three years of service. He after- 
ward pursued his studies in a college in Chi- 
cago, and in 1870 purchased the college of 
which he is now principal and proprietor. 
From La Grange College he received the hon- 
orary degree of M.A. He has also gained 
several medals for artistic work with the pen, 
one of which was awarded him at the 
World's Exposition in New Orleans in 1885. 
He enjoys a reputation for various excel- 
lences of life and character Of the Ver- 
mont Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Quincy, he ranks as a leading member, a lib- 
eral supporter, and a willing, earnest, and 
successful worker. 



Rev. ALFRED WESLEY McKINNEY, 

delegate from Central Alabama, is the son of 
Stephen and Catharine McKinney, and was 
born February the 6th, 1858. He was taken 
from his parents when about four years old, 
and from then till the close of the Civil War 
lived in the family of Robert Donald. He 
first attended school in Newbern, Ala., and 
experienced more than ordinary difficulties in 
the pursuit of knowledge, having had to work 
three days in each week so as to earn where- 
with to defray his school expenses the other 
three. In 1873 he attended Grenada Acad- 
emy, Grenada, Miss., and received important 
scholastic advantages. Here, also, under the 
preaching of Rev. Gilbert Brooks, he was con- 
verted and joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He entered Central Tennessee Col- 
lege in 1874, and was licensed to preach in 
1876 by Rev. J. Braden, D.D. He joined 
Central Alabama Conference in 1878, and 
was ordained deacon by Bishop I. W. Wiley. 
He was ordained elder by Bishop E. G. 
Andrews, in 1882, and was graduated at 
Central Tennessee College in 1884. He has 
served as pastor, successively, at Soule's 



Chapel, Eutaw, Marion, and Huntsville. In 
1885 he was appointed Principal of Rust 
Normal School, Huntsville, Ala., and in both 
pastoral and educational lines he has achieved 
a degree of success gratifying to those as- 
sociated with him, and attracting the attention 
of many others besides. 



Rev. HUGH BOYD. 

Hugh Boyd was favored with pious par- 
ents, and was born in the North of Ireland, 
in 1854. For forty years his father has been 
a class-leader among the Wesleyan Method- 
ists. He professed religion when twelve 
years old. At sixteen he left the land of his 
nativity and came to Pittsburg, Pa., and lived 
there three years, being graduated from 
Duff's Business College in his nineteenth 
year. He then went to Philadelphia, and con- 
nected himself with the Emory Church. 
Under the inspiration of that grand man of 
God, Rev. William Mullen, he began exer- 
cising in public. He received license to 
preach at the age of twenty, and soon after 
had a call to labor in Georgia. For thirteen 
years he has diligently served the Church 
there, during which period he has been Pre- 
siding Elder for four years and Secretary 
of Georgia Conference for two years. He 
has often walked thirty miles to an appoint- 
ment and waded a river to meet his engage- 
ments. 



EDWARD APPLEYARD, ESQ. 

At Haworth, in Yorkshire, England, a 
county where Wesleyan Methodism has best 
taken root and won its choicest triumphs, Mr. 
Appleyard was born, on the 15th of April, 
1840. He was thoroughly converted at the 
age of fourteen, and admitted to membership 
under the ministry of Rev. R. Spence Hard)-, 
a Wesleyan minister renowned for scholarship 
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his zeal for the cause of God and capacity for 
work brought him into special prominence. 
One by one his brethren intrusted him with 
the various offices open to Wesleyan laymen, 
the best proof of their estimate as to his abil- 
ity and fidelity. In 1873 he came to this 
country and settled in Jamestown, N. Y. He 
engaged in the manufacture of the worsted 
dress fabrics for which the city has since 
grown somewhat famous, and is at present 
superintendent of the largest manufacturing 
establishment in Jamestown. His work in 
the Church is varied and hearty as in the old 
country. As class-leader and local preacher 
he wields a power for good in the community, 
while his success as Sunday-school superin- 
tendent has been very marked. Under his 
care the school has grown to double its former 
attendance, until it now ranks as the largest 
in the Erie Conference. In the struggle for 
the recent erection of a new church in James- 
town he stood in the front rank as worker 
and contributor, and ceased not working and 
giving until the completion of the scheme. 
His generosity is known by many beyond the 
bounds of his immediate circle. 

The same Conference which elected him its 
delegate to the General Conference conferred 
on him the additional honor of selecting him 
to represent it in the Board of Control of 
Allegheny College. 



Rev. WILLIAM H. HUNTER. 

Willinm II. Hunter, one of the Central 
Illinois Conference delegation, was born in 
Mercer, Pa., October 13, 1813. He was con- 
verted in his native town at the age of 
twenty, and in 1836 was licensed to preach 
and entered the Erie Conference. His long 
ministry has been attended by many rich 
outpourings of divine grace. For twenty-six 
years he filled the office of Presiding Elder, 
at all times being an inspiration and a guide 
to the preachers on his district. His breth- 



ren of Central Illinois Conference have seven 
times honored him by electing him a dele- 
gate to the General Conference, and he was 
also once a representative from the Erie. He 
served one term on the General Missionary 
Committee, and of this experience he says, 
" I hear at this moment the stirring appeals 
of Durbin and Harris for benighted heathen. 1 ' 
He was also a member during one quadren- 
nium of the Book Committee. He is a faith- 
ful and efficient worker in the cause of God 
and of Methodism. 



CHARLES F. CRAVER, ESQ., 

lay delegate from Iowa Conference, was born 
in Gloucester County, N. J., September 3, 
1842. Very early in life two important 
events took place which largely shaped his 
subsequent career. These were his joining the 
Temperance Cadets at ten years of age, and 
conversion and union with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church when in his twelfth year. 
He resided with his parents on a farm until 
the outbreak of the Civil AVar, in 1861, when 
he enlisted in the 4th Iowa Cavalry, and en- 
dured the hardships of the battle-field until the 
close of the war. His marriage with Miss A. C. 
Hambleton took place in 1866, and since then 
their home has been in Grinnell, la. In de- 
votion to the best interests of the community 
he has been earnest and tireless. Many 
proofs of grateful recognition have been ac- 
corded him. He represented his native 
county in the State Legislature, Sixteenth 
General Assembly. From Iowa College he 
received the honorary degree of A.M. two 
years ago. He figures as a successful leader 
in forward movements of vital importance. 
Amongst these may be noted his superin- 
tendency of Sabbath-school for fifteen years, 
Presidency of the local Board of Education 
for twelve years, and Presidency of the Bible 
Society and Young Men's Christian Associ- 
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iness circles lie fills the positions of President 
of the First National Bank and principal of 
the largest machinery establishment in the 
State. Lacking many early advantages, and 
battling with stern difficulties (as when his 
property was entirely destroyed by the fear- 
fully destructive cyclone of 1882), he never- 
theless worked his way to a high position and 
to the acquirement of an influence potent, 
far-reaching, and pure. Apart from the choice 
heritage of a good name, the secret of such a 
career may be chiefly traced to personal en- 
ergy, fidelity, and trust. 



Hon. HALBERT B. CASE, 

lay delegate from Holston Conference, and at- 
torney-at-law of Chattanooga, Tenn., was born 
May 3, 1838, in Mecca, O. Commencing life 
on his fathers farm, he received the best ed- 
ucation then within reach, and afterward 
secured a liberal training at Oberlin College. 
To the call for volunteers in the time of 
the Civil War he was one of the first to 
respond from his native county. He enlisted 
as a private soldier in 1861, was soon pro- 
moted to second, and then to rank of first, 
lieutenant, serving in that capacity through 
several severe campaigns. In spring of 1862 
he was made Captain of 84th Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, the duties of which position he per- 
formed with such satisfaction that Governor 
David Todd commissioned him Colonel. 
This last preferment came as a complete sur- 
prise, but Colonel Case filled the position with 
characteristic ability and success. Returning 
home, Colonel Case entered the Michigan 
University with a view to the legal profession, 
and soon graduated LL.B. In Youngstown, 
O., and Des Moines, la., he practiced as at- 
torney for several years. Removing to Chat- 
tanooga in 1874, he attained still greater 
eminence in his profession, being city attorney 
from 1876 to 1878. In 1882 he was elected to 
the Lower House of the State Legislature, and 



in 1884 to the State Senate. He was nom- 
inated for Congress in 1880. Such was his 
popularity that he received the largest vote 
ever cast for any Republican up to that 
date. In the reorganization of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in the South, and in 
the founding of our institutions of learning, 
Colonel Case played a part for which his 
name must rank among the best friends of 
Methodism. He is trustee of the Grant 
Memorial University and law lecturer in that 
institution, also Sunday-school superintend- 
ent in Tabernacle Church, Chattanooga. 

As a polished scholar, a strong speaker, a 
man of profound convictions, and an enthusias- 
tic Methodist, Colonel Case holds a high place 
among the influential laymen who stand as pil- 
lars in our Church. 



MOSES L. B. SEFRIT, ESQ. 

Moses L. B. Sefrit, lay delegate from 
Indiana, is well-known as holding a high 
place in the rank and file of worthy and suc- 
cessful Methodist toilers. Born in Bantown- 
ship, Ind., on October 17, 1836, most, if not 
all, of his experience has been gained and 
work performed within the bounds of his 
native State. He was converted, and united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church, un- 
der the ministries of Revs. Thomas A. 
Whitehead and Thomas Alexander, when in 
his eighteenth year. His sterling character 
and business qualities soon designated him for 
forms of work demanding ability and care. 
He was twice elected delegate to the Lay 
Electoral Conference of the Indiana Confer- 
ence, and served eight years on the Board of 
Conference Stewards, and on Disbursing Com- 
mittee of Preachers' Aid Society. Emphatic 
testimony to his high personal character, his 
widely extended influence, and the esteem in 
which he is held " for his work's sake" comes 
from many quarters. In business circles he 
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eons manager of the Washington Daily and 
Weekly Gazette. In every capacity, as Church 
member and official, private citizen and pub- 
lic business man, he has been the center of 
influences tending to the world's betterment, 
and which cannot die. 



Hon. JACOB F. SCHULTZ. 

Hon. Jacob F. Schultz was born in Wor- 
tenberg, Germany, November 24, 1831. In 
the year 1839 his parents emigrated to 
America and settled in Ann Arbor, Mich., 
where they joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. A sermon preached by Rev. P. F. 
Schneider during a revival led to his convic- 
tion and conversion. This was in 1855, 
when at the age of twenty-four years. His 
activities have been inven since that time to 

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the Church of his choice. He has diligently 
labored and faithfully supported, with gener- 
ous ability, the cause of God. He entered 
upon business for himself in 18G1 in Ypsi- 
lanti, Mich. Several manufacturing estab- 
lishments in different parts of the State of 
Michigan are owned and controlled by him, 
the principal one being at Lansing. He was 
the first choice of the Central German Con- 
ference as lay delegate to the Geueral Con- 
ference. 



Rev. ABRAHAM H. DOMER, D.D. 

Abraham H. Domer was born in Rock- 
land, Venango County, Pa., January 1, 1837. 
In the eighteenth year of his age, on the 21st 
of August, 185-1, he was converted, and united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
received license to preach in 1<S60. In 1857 
he entered Allegheny College, from which he 
graduated in 1861, receiving the degree of 
A.B. Three years later he received the de- 
gree of A.M. in cursu, and in 1885, from the 
same institution, his alma mater, received the 



degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1863 he 
entered the Erie Conference, in which he re- 
mained until the East Ohio Conference was 
formed in 1876, when, being stationed on the 
Western Reserve, he fell into the East Ohio 
Conference. He has continued in the pasto- 
ral work in this Conference until the present 
time. Dr. Domer has never lost a week's 
work by sickness or otherwise during all his 
active and successful ministry. He was a 
member of the Publishing Committee of the 
Pittsburg Christian Advocate from 1880 to 
1884, and is at present Presiding Elder of 
the New Philadelphia District, East Ohio 
Conference. A strong, good man. 



REV. LOUIS PAINE. 

Of New England parentage. Rev. Louis 
Paine, A.M., was born at Salem, O., December 
4, 1837. He spent his early life on a farm 
at Limaville, Stark County, O. He united 
with the Church after his conversion in Jan- 
uary, 1856. License to preach was given to 
him in 1861. He graduated from Mt. Union 
College in the classical course in June, 1862. 
Entered the Pittsburg Conference March, 
1863. In March, 1865, he married Mary E. 
Lind, of Canton, O. Bishop Ames ordained 
him deacon in 1865, and Bishop Thomson 
elder in 1867. He organized a church 
at Rochester, Pa., in 1867, and received dur- 
ing his three years there three hundred in 
chinch fellowship, and erected a fine church 
building. At " Century," Pittsburg, he com- 
pleted a large and costly church edifice. He 
has served as Presiding Elder of the Barnes- 
ville District, East Ohio Conference, and is now 
pastor of Central Church, Cleveland, O. As 
a preacher he is clear, systematic, and forcible. 
His faithfulness as a pastor and his great re- 
vivals have distinguished him. His successes 
in the Eldership have been noteworthy, and 
much new work has been developed by his 
energetic efforts. 



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REV. CHARLES F. HEDLER, 

delegate from the Chicago German Conference, 
takes rank among the many valuable contri- 
butions of the " Fatherland " to our Church 
and country. His childhood was passed in 
old homestead at Apolda, in Saxe- Weimar, 
Germany, where he was born July 8, 18-11 . 
The family, consisting of father, mother, and 
three sons, emigrated to this land in 1852. 
The year 1858 marked his conversion, and 
union with the Church on the part of both 
mother and son. A few years later, when 
this country needed volunteers for the battle- 
field, the brave and good mother, reflecting 
on the vast interests at stake, declared she 
would be ashamed of her sons if they stayed 
at home. All enlisted. The subject of this 
sketch served in the 2d Illinois Artillery. 
During the progress of the campaign he was 
exposed to deadly peril (being once shot 
through the hat), and had to encounter the 
temptations incident to a soldier's life. The 
supreme importance of true religion was 
abundantly tested, experienced, and exempli- 
fied. After his promotion to the rank of 
Quarter-master Sergeant he was once impor- 
tuned to make out a false report, but with 
inflexible fidelity refused to do violence to 
his clear sense of duty, and in consequence of 
this occurrence he resigned. 

Having spent some time in the German 
Wesleyan College at Warrenton, Mo., he was 
duly licensed to preach in 1866, and in the 
next year received on trial in the then South- 
west German Conference. Throughout his 
subsequent career he has exhibited his char- 
acteristic fidelity, and has already won for 
himself in our Church and work an endur- 
ing record. 



LEONARD S. DOOLITTLE, ESQ., 

lay delegate from Central Tennessee, was 
born in Mercer County, Pa., September 6, 
1810. His parents, who were Methodists. 

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emigrated to Green County, Wis., during his 
boyhood. In 1860 he made his home in Lake 
County, 111., until the outbreak of the war, 
when he enlisted in the 96th Illinois Volun- 
teer Infantry. At the battle of Chickamauga 
he was severely wounded and left on the 
field as dead, but life revived and he fell into 
the hands of the enemy. At the expiration 
of eleven days he was paroled and sent 
through to Chattanooga, Tenn. While lying 
in hospital, on January 7, 1861, he found in 
Christ the Physician of his soul, and the fol- 
lowing summer united with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Avon Center, 111. On 
removal to Jeffersonville, Ind., he united by 
letter, and similarly upon his appointment as 
Superintendent of the National Cemetery at 
Murfreesboro, Tenn. Owing to the disorgan- 
ization of our society in this place he was 
obliged to enroll himself with the society 
most adjacent, which was at Shelbyville, 
twenty-eight miles distant. Finding the dis- 
tance too great, he eventually became identified 
with the Cumberland Presbyterians. But 
on his transfer to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., 
his present home, he gladly re-entered the 
ranks of our members, and for many years 
has employed his time and talents in seeking 
to consolidate and extend the cause of Meth- 
odism in that locality. 



REV. WILLIAM S. TURNER. 

Rev. William S. Turner is now sixty-one 
years of age, having been born in Pennsylvania 
in 1827. He gave his heart to the Lord in 
his fourteenth year. Four years later he re- 
moved to Indiana. His educational equipment 
was supplied by Indiana Asbury University, 
from which he graduated in 1852, and out of 
which he took the degree of A.M. shortly 
after. In his lengthened career he has filled 
a wide range of appointments Avithin and 
above the pastorate. He was present at the 
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in 1852, and w ithin its bounds some of his 
best work was executed. As pastor of the 
church in Honolulu he spent three years in 
the Sandwich Islands. He was next elected 
to the Professorship of Latin and English 
Literature in Pacific University, the chair of 
which he tilled for two years. From this 
he arose to be Principal of Napa Collegiate 
Institute, California, in which capacity he 
served for six years, till failing health com- 
pelled his resignation. For a period of six 
years he filled the office of Presiding Elder 
within the bounds of the California Confer- 
ence and represented that body in the General 
Conference in 1876. His transfer to the Co- 
lumbia River Conference took place in 1879. 
He was again appointed Presiding Elder, and 
.is such spent a full term on the Walla Walla 
District. His brethren in this Conference 
have evinced their appreciation of his fidelity 
and success by twice electing him as their 
delegate to General Conference. After thirty- 
six years of hallowed and active toil in the 
pastorate, eldership, and educational work he 
at present labors with increasing influence 
and unabated ardor in connection with Spo- 
kane College. 



JAMES P. SIMS, ESQ. 

James P. Sims, Esq., lay delegate from Mis- 
sissippi Conference, was born in slavery, and 
for some years had personal experience of its 
bondage and bitterness. In the vicinity of 
his present home, at Aberdeen, Miss., he was 
born on March 9, 1852. During the Civil 
War he was a yard-boy, and afterward 
worked on a farm for a number of years. 
Possessing an inflexible purpose to improve 
his condition, as a means to this worthy 
end he eagerly sought to obtain the benefits 
of an education. In 1869 he attended a 
school under the management of some ladies 
from the North. A year or so later the 
Legislature of his native State passed au act I 



empowering the expenditure of an annual 
sum of money in the establishment of " free 
scholarships" to aid in educating white and 
colored youths. The scholarships were for four 
years, and candidates were selected from the 
various counties. Of four so chosen from 
Monroe County Mr. Sims was one. The ad- 
vantages of this provision he enjoyed for 
three years. His steady application at length 
began to meet with reward. He was ap- 
pointed Principal of Aberdeen High School 
in 1878, a position which he has filled with 
great satisfaction. His sterling character 
commands the respect of all within range of 
his acquaintance. He was converted and 
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
1882, and has been an earnest worker in it 
ever since. 



REV. ELBERT R. DILLE, D.D. 

On the 7th of Feb uary, 1848, the subject 
of this sketch was born in Middleport, Iro- 
quois County, 111. His family removed to 
Indiana in 1854. Upon the death of his 
father a year or two later he was adopted by 
Mr. J. V. Wynekoop. He remained with 
him until seventeen years of age, attending 
school in winter and working on the farm 
the rest of the time. The habits of industry 
thus acquired and physical energy developed 
have proved of great and lasting advantage. 
During the last winter of the Civil War 
he enlisted in the 150th Regiment Indiana 
Volunteers, and served until his discharge 
at Harpers Ferry in August, 1865. He en- 
tered the Frankfort Seminary at Frankfort, 
Ind., when eighteen, and studied there for 
two years. Prior to his entrance into the 
itinerancy he spent some time in the work of 
teaching, first as principal of public schools at 
Rossville and subsequently as teacher in the 
Frankfort Seminary. In 1870 he was ad- 
mit fed on probation to the North-west Indiana 
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year later he united in marriage with a daugh- 
ter of Rev. A. Conner of the same Conference. 
His next charge was Bloomsburg, but before 
the expiration of his term there he was obliged 
to try change of climate on account of his 
wife's ill-health. Accordingly, he was trans- 
ferred to the California Conference by Bishop 
Simpson, and since then he has filled several 
important appointments within its bounds. 
He is at present pastor of the First Church, 
Oakland, and Chaplain to the Lower House 
of the California Legislature. He is also 
Chaplain of the Department of the California 
(t. A. R. From the University of the Pacific 
he received the decree of D.D. in 1887. 



REV. DAVID W. THOMAS. 

David AVesley Thomas, of the North India 
Conference, was born January 1, 1833, in 
Sherbrooke, Canada. In 1836 his parents 
settled in Malone, N. Y., at which place he 
received his academical education. After 
serving two years as the principal of the 
public school at Waddington, he completed 
his studies at the Albany State Normal 
School, instead of taking a college course. 
After graduation he spent several years in 
the work of teaching, at the same time 
preaching the Gospel as a local preacher. In 
1858 he entered the Black River Conference, 
and during his first year at Nicholville, N.Y., 
his church was blessed with a powerful re- 
vival. In 1861 he was appointed missionary 
to India. In 1860 he was married to Mrs. 
Laws, of Potsdam, N. Y., who has proved a 
devoted and successful missionary to the en- 
slaved women of India. 

In 1872 Brother Thomas donated to the 
Missionary Society $20,000 for the endow- 
ment of a training-school for native Christians 
in India, and at the session of the North 
India Conference of that year he was ap- 
pointed Principal, and formally organized the 
India Theological Seminary and Normal 



School at Bareilly. In 1873 he devoted him- 
self, with his characteristic energy, to the 
work of increasino; the endowment of the in- 
stitution, and, returning to this country, suc- 
ceeded in procuring $30,000 for this object. 

In 1868 Mr. Thomas received the honorary 
degree of Master of Arts from the Genesee 
College. He is the author of a few sermons 
in English, and several books in Hindustani; 
among others, a commentary on Genesis and 
Exodus, in two separate volumes, in the ver- 
nacular, a work on The Holy Trinity in 
Urdoo, and one on Miracles, True and False. 

Mr. Thomas has for many years held a very 
responsible relation to the Board of our Mis- 
sionary Society in the management of its finan- 
cial affairs in India, and the Board has recently 
appointed him treasurer of all the Confer- 
ences in that country. 



Rev. DANIEL W. HAYS. 

Daniel W. Hays, the subject of this sketch, 
was born in Davidson County, Tenn., February 
8, 1850. He was separated from his parents 
when about five years old by the division of 
the estate of the former owner, who had died. 
He therefore had meager opportunities in 
early life for mental culture, but such as were 
found were assiduously improved. Some time 
before the close of the late war, eager to en- 
joy long-expected freedom, he fled to Nash- 
ville and sought protection behind the Federal 
garrison which securely held the city. There 
the members of the family were reunited and 
began life under new auspices. He soon en- 
tered the schools then open to freedmen. 
Formidable obstacles had to be overcome on 
account of his poverty. 

Opportunely the Freed men's Aid Society, 
by the establishment of the Central Tennessee 
College, afforded him a coveted chance to re- 
ceive instruction in the higher branches when 
he most needed them. The venerable Dr. Bra- 
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Brother Hays to receive his education. In 
18(58 he united with Clark Chapel Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He devoted himself to 
teaching in 1870, and joined Tennessee Con- 
ference in 1871. The West Tennessee Dis- 
trict was presided over by him, and leading 
pastorates, including Nashville, were also filled 
by him. lie married Miss Idela Carney in 
1874. In 1881 he was transferred to the East 
Tennessee Conference. He is at present Pre- 
siding Elder of Chattanooga District, and is es- 
teemed highly by preachers and people. His 
contributions are given occasionally to period- 
ical literature. He is trustee of Central Ten- 
nessee College. He cherishes great hopes 
for the future of the race, and believes in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church as the efficient 
agency under God in uplifting the races of 
mankind aud obliterating caste. 



Rev. ARTHUR EDWARDS, D.D. 

Rev. Arthur Edwards, D.D., delegate from 
Detroit Conference, was born at Norwalk, O., 
November 23, 1834. At seven years of age 
he went to live in Michigan with an uncle, 
after whom he was named, and who educated 
him. He spent a year at Albion Seminary, 
entered Ohio Wesleyan University in 1851, 
and was graduated from its classical depart- 
ment in 1858. He was coti verted in 1852 
and united with the Church. Plis entrance 
to the ministry was at the Detroit Confer- 
ence of 1858, which appointed him to Marine 
City, Mich. In 1860 he was ordained, and 
when the war broke out became Chaplain of 
the 1st Michigan Infantry. After the battle 
of Gettysburg he was relieved of the duties of 
this office to accept those of Colonel of a cav- 
alry regiment. His editorial work dates from 
l s(!4, when he was invited to become assistant 
editor of the North-western Christian Advo- 
cate. He also edited the daily Advocate of 
the General Conference in 1868. Altogether 
eight years were spent as assistant editor, till 



in 1872 he was elected editor of the paper 
whose interests he had already promoted so 
ably. He has been re-elected to this office at 
each General Conference since then, and is 
now senior editor of our English Church 
press. To have produced sixteen volumes 
of such solid worth and assisted in the pro- 
duction of eight others, to have provided 
scope for the exercise and development of so 
much talent in the Church, and to have 
guided, strengthened, and stimulated so many 
other souls are tasks which command admi- 
ration and deserve praise. In his public 
career Dr. Edwards has not stopped here. He 
has been a member of each General Confer- 
ence since 1872, and on two occasions a first 
delegate. He was secretary of the Detroit 
Conference for ten years. At the London 
Ecumenical Conference, 1881, of which he 
was a member, he read a paper of much per- 
manent merit. He was also a member of the 
Baltimore Centennial Conference in 1884. 
The North-western University honored him 
with the degree of D.D. in 1873. He married 
in 1866, and has been blessed with three chil- 
dren. Despite the strain of hard toil his 
health, spirits, and enthusiasm are still at 
normal high pitch. Among the chief work- 
ing force of Methodism he has won for him- 
self a good place. 



JOHN E. JONES, M.D. 

John E. Jones, M.D., was elected lay dele- 
gate by the Cincinnati Conference. His family 
has been honorably connected with Method- 
ism for three generations. In the neighbor- 
hood of their original residence his grand- 
mother was the first to embrace Methodism. 
Dr. Jones was born in Newtown, a village in 
the suburbs of Cincinnati, O., on January 27, 
1834. His conversion and union with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church occurred in the 
year 1850. He spent five years at the Ohio 
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graduated from it June 10, 1858. The next 
five years were devoted to the work of teach- 
ing and the close pursuit of the study of med- 
icine at the same time. He obtained his 
medical diploma from the Medical College of 
Ohio, situate at Cincinnati, in 18(33, and 
entered the army as surgeon of the 79th Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry immediately after. At 
the close of the war he located near his pres- 
ent home, and for the past twelve years he 
has assiduously discharged the duties of his 
profession in the same locality. His work in 
the Church has been of the heartiest type, 
and, though far from being confined to any 
single department, special prominence and 
success have been scored within the arena of 
the Sabbath-school. 



REV. ISAAC F. KING. 



Rev. Isaac F. King, delegate from Ohio 
Conference, represents his native State and 
first Conference, haying been born in Muskin- 
gum County, O., May 8, 1834, and entering the 
ministry in Ohio Conference, where all his 
ministerial life has been passed. His conver- 
sion took place in 1852, during his stay at the 
Grammar School of Zanesville. With the 
assistance of his brother. Dr. W. F. Kino-, 
then Principal of Unionville Seminary, Teun., 
and now President of Cornell College, la., he 
prepared for college. He completed his 
studies in Ohio Wesleyan University in 1858, 
was graduated in that year, and entered the 
Ohio Conference. His marriage with Miss 
Ella Bowen, of Waterford, O., was celebrated 
in 1865. Four daughters and one son (de- 
ceased) have blessed their union and glad- 
dened their home. Out of thirty years spent 
in the itinerancy Mr. King has been for 
twelve years a Presiding Elder. The inter- 
ests committed to his care have been attended 
to with such unremitting fidelity as precluded 
his taking a two-months' vacation in all that 
time. As a result of his toil the stability and 



growth of Methodism have been promoted in 
the spheres where he has employed his ener- 
gies. He was a member of the Committee on 
Lay Delegation in Annual Conferences ordered 
by the General Conference of 1876, and was 
also a member of the General Conference of 
1880. 



JAMES A. CLAYTON, ESQ. 

James A. Clayton Avas born in England 
October 20, 1831. In company with his 
parents he came to the United States in 1839 
and settled in the lead district in Wisconsin. 
He crossed the plains to California, arriving 
there in August, 1850. From the California 
mines he went to the gold fields of Australia 
in November, 1851, returning in August, 
1852. He made his home in Santa Clara 
until 1856, when he returned to San Jose, 
where he has resided ever since. In 1857 he 
was converted and joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He married in 1860, and 
was elected county clerk in 1861, serving two 
terms. For the last twenty years he has been 
engaged in real estate business. With great 
fidelity he has served in the First Methodist 
Church in San Jose as steward and trustee 
almost continuously for thirty years. For a 
number of years past he has been a trustee 
of the University of the Pacific at San Jose- 
He was elected to serve as alternate to the 
last General Conference, and was elected 
one of the lay delegates from the California 
Conference to the session of 1888. His long 
and faithful adherence to the Church well 
merits this honor. 



HENRY RIEKE, ESQ. 



Henry Rieke, lay delegate from the Chicago 
German Conference, was born in the province 
of Lippe-Detmold, Germany, in 1845, and 
came to America in 1861. He began life in 
the New World as a clerk in Chicago, and by 



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patient attention to duty and untiring energy 
made rapid advancement. In 1869 lie became 
connected with the real estate and loan bus- 
iness, in which he has since continued, enjoy- 
ing the success attendant upon just dealing 
and sound business principles. He became a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
1861, and is at present identified with the 
Centre Street Church in Chicago, of which he 
was one of the founders. He is an earnest 
worker, and is the superintendent of the 
Centre Street German Sunday-school, and also 
of a German mission Sunday-school of upward 
of two hundred scholars in a somewhat neg- 
lected part of the city. 



Rev. CHARLES C. McLEAN, 

delegate from the Saint John's River Confer- 
ence, is as yet fairly in his prime, having been 
born in Philadelphia January 10, 1851. He 
was converted and united with the Church 
when fifteen. Feeling called to the ministry 
when eighteen he was employed in North 
Penn., where his labors resulted in the con- 
version of some two hundred persons. 

He was educated in Pennsylvania Normal 
School and Drew Seminary. Entering the 
Philadelphia Conference in 1874 he served the 
following charges: Cochranville, Millersville, 
Fulton, Coatesville, and Belmont, till in 1882 
he was transferred to the Florida Conference 
and stationed at Jacksonville, where he spent 
three years. He was next appointed to St. 
Augustine, Fla. When his term expired several 
petitions were filed requesting his continuance 
for a fourth year. To these the Bishop ac- 
ceded, leaving the charge '* to be supplied " by 
Mr. McLean. Under his ministry hundreds 
have been converted, membership in some 
places trebled, large debts extinguished, and 
costly edifices erected and furnished. Limited 
space precludes presentation of many cheering 
features of his work, but one instance must 
be chronicled. 



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While in St. Augustine, after he had finished 
a church at a cost of $10,000, Mr. H. M. Flag- 
ner, a wealthy Presbyterian from New York, 
visited the place and became so interested in 
the church and pastor that he eventually built 
and handed over to him the finest church and 
parsonage south of the Potomac River, costing 
some $85,000. During his stay the mem- 
bership in St. Augustine increased from twen- 
ty-four to one hundred and fifty. As a tribute 
to their work and worth, he and Mrs. McLean 
were lately made the recipients of costly pre- 
sentations. 

Mr. McLean's work has not been confined 
to the pastorate. He edited the Florida 
Christian Advocate, and is financial agent of 
the Conference College. He was delegate 
to the Baltimore Centennial Conference of 
1884, and received a practically unanimous 
vote at his recent election as delegate. As a 
forcible writer, preacher, and lecturer he has 
won a wide reputation. 



Rev. JASPER F. CHEN0WETH. 

Mr. Chenoweth belongs to one of the most 
respectable families in Randolph County, Va., 
where he was born, December 1, 1849. His 
parents were members of the Calvinistic Bap- 
tist Church. On leaving home, after the 
death of his mother, he was blessed with $7 
and a great ambition to secure an education. 
Through much struggling and application he 
succeeded. He was converted at eighteen 
uudei - the ministry of Rev. S. B. D. Prickitt, 
licensed to preach in 1870, received on trial by 
West Virginia Conference in 1871, and in Sep- 
tember of that year was married to Miss 
Frances F. Marstetter, of Randolph County. 

The Elizabeth Circuit was his first appoint- 
ment, and he labored subsecpiently on 
Williamstown, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, and 
Parkersburg (2d term) charges. In each of 
these he ministered with great acceptance and 
success for three years. As Presiding Elder 



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of the Morgantown District he has achieved 
gratifying results for the Church. Revivals 
have been promoted, churches built, parson- 
ages provided, debts paid off, and for the first 
time in the history of the Conference the 
ministerial claims met in full on his district. 
As master in the art of managing finance, and 
a good preacher well abreast of the times* 
Mr. Chenoweth is widely known and much in 
request. 



DANIEL STRIKER, ESQ. 

Daniel Striker, a lay delegate of the 
Michigan Conference, was born April 9, 1835, 
in the town of Rose, Wayne County, N. Y. 
As his family removed soon after, his infancy 
and youth were spent chiefly in Michigan. 
Until twenty years of age most of his time 
was devoted to pioneer farm life in Jackson 
and Barry Counties respectively. During this 
period sufficient intervals were reserved and 
used in procuring the education furnished by 
common district schools. At later junctures 
this was supplemented by terms in Michigan 
Central College and Hastings Union School. 
In business as in other departments he had 
the usual share of difficulties to struggle with. 
He started in the employ of Messrs. Barlow & 
Goodyear, October, 1855, at $13 per month. 
In October, 1862, he had the happiness of 
being united in marriage with a very esti- 
mable Christian lady, Miss Sarah E. Fancher. 
Their home is brightened by one daughter, 
now eleven years of age. 

From time to time Mr. Striker has filled 
through varying periods the following impor- 
tant public positions: Clerk of Barry County, 
Superintendent of the Poor for the county, 
Supervisor of Hastings and Chairman of the 
Board, and Secretary of State from 1870- 
1874. He was admitted to the bar of Barry 
County in 1870, but has never practiced. He 
is at present Vice-President and Director of 
the Hastings National Bank, Director of the 



First National Bank of Eaton Rapids, 
Mich., which he assisted in organizing, and 
Chairman of the "Albion College Endow- 
ment Fund Committee " of Albion, Mich. ; so 
that his time is mostly devoted to banking 
and the management of college funds. In 
politics and freemasonry he wields influences 
very widely felt. Since his early conversion 
and union with the Church he has been a 
devoted worker and liberal supporter. For 
thirteen years he has efficiently discharged 
the duties of secretary and treasurer of the 
board at Hastings. He was delegate to the 
first Lay Electoral Conference at St. Joseph 
in 1872. Amid manifold pressing activities 
he "abounds in the work of the Lord." 



REV. GEORGE H. BRIDGMAN, D.D. 

George H. Bridgman, delegate from Minne- 
sota Conference, is a Canadian by birth, hav- 
ing been born in the Province of Ontario, 
August 2, 1841. He received a thorough 
education at Victoria University, Cobourg, 
Out., from which he was graduated in 1864, 
receiving the degree of A.M. three years 
later. Immediately after leaving college he 
joined the Wesleyan Methodist Conference 
of Canada, and served on charges and cir- 
cuits within it for a period of nine years. In 
July, 1873, he was elected Principal of the 
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, situated at Lima, 
N. Y. He filled this position with great ac- 
ceptance and success for ten years. The Syra- 
cuse University bestowed on him the degree 
of D.D. in 1877. He was elected to the Pres- 
idency of Hamline University, Hamline, 
Minn., in 1883, and in this place and capacity 
he now labors. His popularity, which is pro- 
nounced, is not based merely on the very 
ample success he has achieved in these 
flourishing institutions. It is augmented by 
his effective pulpit and platform work, and by 
the exercise of personal qualities which render 
him endeared to many friends. 



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ALBERT D. PECK, ESQ. 

Albert D. Peck, lay delegate from North- 
west Iowa Conference, was born May 13, 1846, 
in De Witt, Onondaga County, N. Y. His 
rarly life was spent on his father's farm, with 
such advantages as fall to the lot of the son 
of an intelligent and prosperous firmer. His 
education was obtained principally at the 
Syracuse High School and at Cazenovia 
Seminary. He moved to Sac County, la., in 
1873, and commenced the life of a Western 
farmer on the unbroken prairie, in a sparsely 
settled community. He was married in 1874 
to Miss Augusta Smurr, of Columbus, O. In 
1877 he was elected Auditor of Sac County, 
la., which position he held for five consecutive 
terms. He has also been trustee of Iowa 
Agricultural College. 

Mr. Peck's parents were Methodists, and 
when he was seventeen years of age he also 
became identified with the Church. Since early 
manhood he has been in continuous service as 
Sunday-school superintendent or class-leader, 
besides filling other official positions in the 
Church. He was chosen leader of the Sac 
City, la., class in 1878, and still retains that 
relation. His exemplary fidelity and whole- 
hearted energies have been unsparingly used 
in these departments, and a large community 
is his debtor for help thus rendered toward 
"that" life " which is to come." 

An uncle of his, Rev. Albert D. Peck, was 
delegate to the General Conference of 1844. 



Rev. EDWARD LEE. 

Rev. Edward Lee, delegate from the Texas 
Conference, was born in the vicinity of Co- 
lumbia, Tex. At the age of eleven years he 
was converted and joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. After his conversion he 
engaged in various forms of Christian service, 
becoming especially prominent as Sunday- 
school superintendent and local preacher. 



He was received on trial by Bishop Harris at 
Brenham, Tex, in January, 1875. His ear- 
nest labors in the pastorate have borne rich 
fruit, not only in the increase of membership 
on all his charges, but in the formation of socie- 
ties and erection of new churches in which 
Methodism is doing noble work for God. 

Since his appointment to the Presiding 
Eldership his talents and energies have been 
unsparingly employed in promoting the inter- 
ests of the work throughout his district. The 
existing charges have secured steady growth, 
new counties have been taken into our care, 
contributions for missions quadrupled, and 
Church buildings erected at a rate hitherto 
unprecedented. Mr. Lee wields a large in- 
fluence in the community, and is much 
beloved for his works' sake. 



REV. JAMES H. GARDNER. 

Rev. James H. Gardner, of the Ohio Con- 
ference, was born of Methodist parentage 
in Perry County, Ohio, May 20, 1833. When 
fourteen years of age he united with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Feeling called of the Holy Spirit to the 
work of the Christian ministry, Mr. Gardner 
entered the Ohio University at Athens, O., 
where he pursued a thorough classical course, 
graduating in June, 1859, with the second 
honors of his class. In July, 1858, he received 
his first license to preach. After graduation 
he went South, and filled the position of Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics in the Shelbyville 
University, Tenn., for an extended period. 
About the outbreak of the Civil War he 
returned to Ohio, and was elected to the chap- 
laincy of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
He shared with his regiment the varying 
fortunes of war in successive campaigns, no- 
tably in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, 
the Atlanta campaign, " March to the Sea," 
through the Carolina?, to Richmond, Va., and 
thence to Washington City, where he was 
honorably mustered out May, 15, 1865. 



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His marriage with Miss Carrie Wait, of 
Dayton, 0., took place June 7, 1865. In the 
fall of that year he was received into the Ohio 
Conference, within the bounds of which he 
has performed all his pastoral work since. 
His career has been characterized by un- 
ceasing fidelity and devotion to the interests 
of the work on his several charges, and not 
less so to those pertaining to the prosperity 
of our Church generally. He is at present 
stationed at Newark, O., where he serves a 
flourishing charge of over six hundred mem- 
bers. 



Rev. EPHRAIM L. EATON, B.D. 

Rev. Ephraim L. Eaton, delegate from West 
Wisconsin Conference, is son to one of the old 
Methodist families whose name are insepara- 
bly linked with the toils and triumphs of Amer- 
ican Methodism. He is of the eighth gen- 
eration from Francis Eaton of the Mayflower, 
and is a relative of Drs. Joel W. and Homer 
Eaton. His father emigrated from Western 
New York and settled in Hebron, Jefferson 
County, Wis. in 1843, and here he was born 
March 27, 1846. He was educated at dis- 
trict schools and Milton College. His earliest 
efforts were alternately divided between teach- 
ing school and working on his father's farm. 
When seventeen years of age he was con- 
verted under the ministry of the Rev. T. M. 
Ross, and some years afterward became a 
member of the Church. He joined the Wis- 
consin Conference in 1871, and was ordained 
deacon by Bishop Merrill in 1873 and elder 
by Bishop Wiley in 1875. 

He took the full course in theology at 
Evanston 1874-1877, and was graduated with 
diploma. The (xarrett Biblical Institute 
further recognized his scholarship by confer- 
ring upon him the degree of B.D. in 1884. 
For twelve years he served in Wisconsin Con- 
ference on the following charges : Port Wash- 
ington, Pewaukee, Sylvania, and Beloit. On 
his transfer to the West Wisconsin Confer- 

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ence he was appointed to Madison, where he 
served three years, and more recently as Pre- 
siding Elder of the Madison District, which 
he held for a full term. He is now pastor of 
Caledonia Street, La Crosse. He was mar- 
ried in 1868 to Miss Mary Miner, a lady dis- 
tinguished alike for her attainments and 
zealous work. As secretary for the Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union of Wisconsin, 
and in connection with the Woman's Foreign 
Missionary Society, she has influenced and 
aided a vast circle. 

As a pronounced Prohibitionist, an able 
preacher and lecturer, and a successful evan- 
gelist Mr. Eaton has won his way to a high 
position of usefulness and good esteem. He 
is widely popular at dedications and on 
important special occasions, and at the same 
time concentrates his energies to secure the 
highest possible results on his own charge. 
He was a member of the Centennial Confer- 
ence held at Baltimore in 1884. 



Rev. ISAAC W. JOYCE, D.D. 

Isaac W. Joyce, delegate from Cincinnati 
Conference, traces his ancestry back to the 
shores of Ireland and city of Dublin. His 
own native place, however, is in Hamilton 
County, Ohio. Daring his early childhood 
his father moved to Indiana, and for many 
years he attended to farming pursuits there. 
Upon his conversion, when sixteen years 
old, he united with the church. Succeeding 
years were devoted to studying in college 
and active labor as a teacher. Being 
divinely guided to the work of the ministry, 
he was in 1859 admitted on trial in the North- 
west Indiana Conference, and ordained deacon 
by Bishop Simpson in 1861, and elder by 
Bishop Morris in 1863. 

He served several of the leading charges in 
this Conference, and was Presiding Elder of 
the East Lafayette District for four years. 
From Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) Univer- 



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sity he received the degree of A.M., and from 
Dickinson College that of D.D., in 1876. He 
was delegate to the General Conference of 
1880, and rendered valuable service as secre- 
tary of the Committee on Itinerancy. His 
transfer to Cincinnati Conference took place 
in September, 1880, since which time he has 
been pastor of the following charges : St. 
Paul's, Cincinnati ; Trinity Church, Cincin- 
nati ; and by unanimous request was re- 
appointed to St. Paul's for a second term in 
1880. By appointment of the Bishops he 
was sent in September, 1886, to represent the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at the General 
Conference of the Methodist Church of Cana- 
da, a position for which his wisdom and gifts 
peculiarly fitted him. His ministerial life has 
been almost exclusively devoted to the pasto- 
rate, and chiefly on large circuits or in large 
city churches. As a wise administrator, a 
painstaking official, and a model preacher and 
pastor, Dr. Joyce's name is well known and 
held in high esteem. 



Rev. CHRISTOPH SCHULZ. 

Rev. Christoph Schulz, delegate from the 
North-west German Conference, was born in 
Germany May 16, 1833. He emigrated to 
the United States in the spring of 1854. His 
conversion took place a year later, and, under 
God, was mainly brought about by the con- 
sistent lives of the family with whom he 
abode. He engaged in efforts to do good, and 
in connection with these received his call to 
the ministry in 1859. In 1860 he was re- 
ceived into the Hock River Conference, and 
since that time his pastoral labors have been 
abundant and signally blessed. 

All through his public ministry he seems 
to have lived under the spell of Mr. Wesley's 
ringing motto, "You have nothing to do but 
to save souls." His own spiritual experience 
has taken a deeper cast since 1874, and not 
without cheering signs following. 



REV. WILLIAM W. SATTERLEE. 

William Wilson Satterlee, delegate from 
Minnesota Conference, was born in Laporte 
County, Ind., April 11, 1837. His parents 
were devoted Methodists. Having had to 
spend his youth in farm life, he was denied 
early educational privileges beyond those 
furnished in common district schools. Upon 
his conversion, in his nineteenth year, lie 
united with the Wesleyan Methodist Con- 
nection of America. In this denomination 
he was ordained Elder, and finally became 
President of the Minnesota Conference. 

After the close of the war he withdrew by 
letter from the Wesleyan, and in 1867 united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

When he had served three pastoral terms 
in our ranks he was appointed Temperance 
Agent, and with the progress of this reform 
his subsequent career is inseparably linked. 
Since the year 1869 he has been an earnest 
advocate of Prohibition, and an acknowledged 
leader in the great temperance movement. 
At the last session of the Minnesota Con- 
ference he was appointed to the Chair of 
Political Science and Temperance in Grant 
Memorial University, Athens, Tenn., the first 
chair of the kind founded in the country. 

On December 24, 1856, he was married to 
Miss Sarah Stout, and has a family of six 
children, five of whom have reached manhood 
and womanhood. 

He was chosen as delegate from the pas- 
torate, and still retains his membership in the 
Minnesota Conference, but his reputation and 
influence extend far beyond its limits. 



JOSEPH E. STUBBS, ESQ. 

Joseph E. Stubbs, who is a lay delegate 
from North Ohio Conference, was born at 
Ashland, O., in the year 1850. His ances- 
tors belonged to England and Ireland. ■ The 
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godly training and liberal education ; the I 
latter secured by a thorough course at Ohio 
Wegleyan University, from which he was 
graduated in June, 1873, with the degree of 
B.A. At the close of Lis junior year he was 
elected to the position of tutor of Latin and 
Greek in the College Department of the Uni- 
versity, the duties of which he discharged for 
three years. Owing to impaired health he 
was obliged to resign in 1875, and seek recti- 
peration of physical strength by prolonged 
travel. In this way nearly two years were 
spent in California, with gratifying results. 

From 1879-82 he acted as Professor of 
Greek in Ashland College, and from the hit- 
ter year till 1886 was Superintendent of 
Public Schools in the same place. He was 
then elected to the Presidency of Baldwin 
University, Berea, O., and this office, to- I 
gether with that of Professor of Mental I 
and Moral Science, he still holds. Durino- 
his comparatively brief administration in the 
University its endowment fund has been 
augmented by the sum of one hundred th >u- 
saud dollars, while the general progress of 
the institution has been not less noticeable 
and complimentary. 

Amongst the scholars and educators of our 
Church Mr. Stubbs takes high rank, and is 
devoting his talents and energies to a class of 
work which has much to do with determin- 
ing the future of our history. 



Rev. SAMUEL B. DARNELL, B.D., 

delegate from the Florida Conference, spent 
his early days on a farm in Burlington 
County, N. J. In 1857, when he was but 
fourteen, his father died, leaving him and two 
older children to the care of their Quaker 
mother. He received his education at the 
Friends' School, West Town, Pa., and at the 
New York Conference Seminary at Charlotte- 
ville. During his stay at the latter he was 
soundly converted, but deferred entering into 
membership with the Methodist Episcopal 



Church. In 18G5, while teaching at Cape 
May County, N. J., a revival took place in 
his school, and he received a deeper bless- 
ing in his personal experience. These cir- 
cumstances led to his joining on probation. 
In due course he was made local preacher, 
and some time after received an invitation to 
join the New Jersey Conference. This he- 
did not accept, being desirous of completing 
a course at Evauston, 111., but for considera- 
tions of health returned East after two years ; 
entered Drew Seminary, and was graduated 
from it in 1871. His labors in the pastorate 
at Green Village resulted in many conver- 
sions. He passed through a post-graduate 
course at Union Theological Seminary, gain- 
ing experience in mission work at the same 
time. Called to West Virginia, and on the way 
with a newly married wife, he w'as inter- 
cepted at Baltimore, and induced by Bishop 
Simpson to accept another invitation. He 
was ordained deacon and elder the same 
day, and became first pastor of Trinity, Jack- 
sonville, Fla. The work so prospered, Bishop 
Haven appointed him Presiding Elder before 
three years had expired. His ambition to 
educate the colored people took shape. 
Friends contributed money, and Cookman 
Institute, with its boarding and day schools, 
was erected. Eleven years have been spent 
in this work with great and growing success. 
Hundreds in the ministry and other influen- 
tial positions trace their efficiency to this In- 
stitute. Over $10,000 have been raised, so 
that the buildings are now free from debt. 
For the third time Mr. Darnell has been 
elected delegate to the General Conference, a 
fitting tribute to his beneficent enterprise 
and effective labors. 



Major EDWARD LATHROP PAINE. 

Major Edward Lathrop Paine, lay delegate 
from Wisconsin Conference, is in the front 
rank of the venerable members of the present 
General Conference, having been born in 



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Pomfret, Conn., May 29, 1801. When six 
years of age he attended with his father, the 
Rev. Edward Paine, the first camp-meeting 
held in New England. 

Mr. Paine's father emigrated to Susque- 
hanna County, Pa., in 1809. While on his 
way to the Genesee Conference of 18 19 he was 
drowned in the Susquehanna River, leaving 
his son without father, mother, money, or edu- 
cation. He was married August 5, 1824, to 
Eleanor, daughter of Jesse Ross, Esq., who was 
killed in the Wyoming massacre. Their 
family consists of four sons and one daughter. 
Two of the sons served in the army, one, Ma- 
jor Nathan Paine, falling in a cavalry charge ; 
the other, Captain Charles N. Paine, died May 
3, 1885, and left to Lawrence University an 
endowment of $50,000. A third son is Presi- 
dent of the Commercial Bank of Milwaukee, 
while the fourth is president of one of the 
largest lumber companies in the world. 
Most of Mr. Paine's life has been spent in 
lumbering and manufacturing. Early in life 
he formed an independent artillery company, 
of which he became Major. He has twice 
been commissioned by the Governor of his 
State to fill important missions. The offices 
he has filled in the Church have been numer- 
ous and responsible. For seventy years he 
has been steward, leader and trustee, and 
for many years President of the Winnebago 
County Bible Society and trustee of Lawrence 
University. He was in New York when the 
first Christian Advocate was printed. He 
took a number of copies for distribution, and 
has been a subscriber ever since. Through 
his whole life his time and money have been 
freely spent in the service of the Church. 



Hon. GEORGE HENRY FOSTER, 

Hon. George Henry Foster, lay delegate 
from Wisconsin Conference, was born in 
England, May 18, 1827, and came to America 
in 1841. Pie joined the Methodist Episcopal 



Church in 1843, and has ever proved himself 
an active and useful member. He comes of 
Methodist ancestry, his grandfather's and 
father's names appearing on a petition to the 
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells requesting 
leave to hold dissenting services within the 
bounds of his diocese, in the year 1812. 

He has been en paged in the mercantile 
business his entire life, and he is now the 
senior partner in the firm of G. H. Foster & 
Co., a prominent silk house of Chicago. He 
was a member of the Legislature of Wiscon- 
sin in 1803, a delegate to the Ecumenical 
Conference in London in 1881, a member of 
the General Conference in 1884, and one of 
the few laymen fortunate enough to be re- 
; elected in 1888. 

He was elected President of the Milwaukee 
j Missionary and Church Extension Society in 
1 1882, and has held the position ever since. 
! Under his administration two flourishing 
; mission churches have been built, a third is 
j in process of erection, and two more are pro- 
i jected. lie is a careful and successful busi- 
j ness man, a liberal giver, a hard worker, a 
devoted Christian, and a loyal Methodist. 



REV. JOHN H. JOHNSON. 

Rev. John H. Johnson, ministerial delegate 
from Norway Conference, was born in Nor- 
way, July 18, 1837. He came to this coun- 
try in 1857, and joined the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church two years later. He received a 
j good education in Norway, and in this 
country attended different schools in Wiscon- 
sin, where lie also taught for a few terms. 
After being licensed to preach in 18(32, he 
entered the army, serving as Sergeant and 
Chaplain of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteers. 
He was received in full connection with the 
West AVisconsin Conference in 1867, and or- 
dained elder a year subsequently. As pastor 
he has served the Norwegian missions here 
with noteworthy tact, devotion, and success. 



BEPRESEN~TA TI 



In 1872 he was appointed Presiding Elder of 
the Norwegian District, Minnesota Confer- 
ence, and on his transfer to the Wisconsin 
Conference, in 1876, sustained the same rela- 
tion there. He was elected delegate to. the 
General Conference of 1880, which transferred 
him to Norway Conference. The fitness he 
had attained to take, prominent part in guid- 
ing- our work there has been more than once 
recognized. He was made treasurer of the 
Mission, and is now closing his second term 
as Presiding Elder in the Norway Conference. 
In 1881 he was delegate to the Ecumenical 
Conference in London. Apart from his pas- 
toral toils at home and abroad, he has accom- 
plished substantial literary work, both as as- 
sociate editor of a Norwegian Methodist, 
monthly, entitled The Missionary, and au- 
thor of a Volume of sermons. Through dint 
of exertion he lias succeeded m establishing a 
Theological School for the Mission in Nor- 
way. 

His efforts to compass the redemption of 
his native land justly entitle him to a place 
amongst those who lead in the forward 
Methodist movements of to-day. 



REV. JACOB TANNER. 

Rev. Jacob Tanner, delegate from the West 
German Conference, is at present stationed at 
Denver, Col. His early life was passed in 
Switzerland, where he was born April 5, 
1839. Prior to his emigration he availed 
himself of the educational advantages within 
reach, and on his arrival in this country pur- 
sued his studies in Quincy College, 111. His 
work in the ministry dates from 1862, when 
he became a member of Southern Illinois Con- 
ference, within which he has served the fol- 
lowing charges : Cape Girardeau, Mo. ; Van- 
dalia and Effingham, Golconda, Nashville, and 
Boocly. When he had spent two years on the 
latter he was appointed Presiding Elder for 
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part of the present West German Conference. 
At the expiration of three years the district 
was divided and he was appointed to Kansas 
District. Through failing health he was 
obliged to resign his responsible office at the 
close of the second year, and was then sent 
to St. Joseph, Mo., for three years. After 
another term in the pastorate, at Clatonia, he 
was appointed Presiding Elder of Nebraska 
District, which he held until his removal to 
his present sphere in Denver. Conspicuous 
success has attended his efforts in every 
capacity. As a good preacher, a devoted 
pastor, and a judicious administrator he suit- 
ably fills an important place in our ranks. 



HARRISON S. VAUGHN, LL.B. 

Harrison S. Vaughn, LL.B., a lay delegate 
from the North-west Iowa Conference, was 
born August 30, 1845, in Niagara County, 
N. Y. His parents were earnest Christians, 
connected with the Baptist Church. De- 
prived of his father at five years of age, 
the story of his boyhood is one of hardship, 
relieved with the scanty privileges of a com- 
mon school education. At eighteen he en- 
tered the army in the 8th New York Artillery 
Volunteers, passed through several engage- 
ments, and was so severely wounded that his 
right arm had to be amputated. Being but 
nineteen when discharged from the army, he 
re-commenced his studies in Medina Academy. 
At the close of his stay here he engaged in 
the work, of teaching till his removal to Chi- 
cago in 1866. Having resolved on devoting 
himself to professional life, he in 1867 entered 
the State University of Wisconsin, at Madison, 
and was graduated from the Law Department 
in 1870. He commenced practice at Algona, 
la., where he now resides. In October, 1871, 
he married, at Norwalk, O., Miss Ella De. 
Lano, a young lady of unusual grace and 
mental attainments, and a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. They have had. 



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born to them five children, the eldest two of 
whom are in full membership with our 
Church. Although Mr. Vaughn does not re- 
member a time when he had not faith in 
Christ, yet his formal union with the Church 
did not take place until January 25, 1880, 
when he united with the First Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Algona. He was bap- 
tized by the Rev. B. Mitchell, and since then 
has been zealous in every good work tending 
toward the prosperity of his own congrega- 
tion and the extension of our cause in gen- 
eral. To his untiring efforts is largely due 
the erection of the fine church edifice at Al- 
gona, which was dedicated in 1882. He was 
a prime mover in the establishment of the 
Northern Iowa Normal School at Algona, in 
1886. Of this very promising institution he 
is now President. 



Rev. JOHN HEYL VINCENT, D.D., LL.D. 

It is a rare difficulty to present within re- 
stricted limits of space a tolerably ample and j 
correct view of one whose work has been so 
many-siiled in its scope, occasionally so orig- ! 
inal in its conception, and invariably so com- 
plete in its execution as that of Dr. J. H. 
Vincent. The most eventful incidents may 
be simply chronicled as follows : 

He was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., February 
23, 1832 ; moved north to Northumberland 
County, Pa., with his parents in 1838; was 
educated in Milton and Lewisburg (Pa.) 
Academies, in the Preparatory Department of 
Lewisburg University, and in the Newark 
Wesleyan Institute, Newark, N. J. ; was 
licensed as exhorter at McVeytown, Pa., in 
1849; as a local preacher in 1850; traveled 
the Luzerne Circuit, Baltimore Conference, in 
L851 ; served on the Newark City Mission 
and studied in the Newark Wesleyan Insti- 
tute in 1852 ; was admitted to the New Jer- 
sey Annual Conference in 1853; served in 
Franklin and Irvington until the spring of 



1857, when he was transferred to Rock River 
Conference, where he was pastor in Joliet, 
Mount Morris, Galena, Rockford, and Chicago, 
until 1865; established the North-western 
Sunday -School Quarterly in 1865, and the 
Sunday School Teacher in 1866; in the same 
year was appointed Agent of the Sunday- 
School Union of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; in 1868 was elected by the Gen- 
eral Conference Secretary of the Sunday- 
School L'nion, and was re-elected in 1872, 
'76, '80, and '84. He traveled in Europe in 
1862-63, '72, '78, '80, '86-87. In 1863 and 
1887 he visited Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. 
He is the author of several books: Little 
Footprints in Bible Lands; The Church- 
School and Its Officers ; The Chautauqua 
Movement; The Modern Sunday-School; The 
Revived and After the Revival; Better Not, 
and several other volumes. Lewis Miller, 
Esq., and Dr. Vincent organized the Chau- 
ampia work in 1874. 

The points indicated might be augmented. 
They exhibit him as the successful pastor, the 
accomplished scholar, the versatile author and 
editor, and the twin-founder and inspiring 
genius of a vast educational movement. More 
than it has been given to most men, it has been 
his lot to wield agencies destined to reach 
distant generations. Out of such a wide field 
it is hard to say which will live longest, but, 
studying all with patient and sober gaze, the 
opinion is here recorded that, when other 
beneficent activities may have fulfilled their 
course, his work in connection with the Chau- 
tauqua movement will remain as an unabating 
boon to American Methodism. 



WILLIAM HENRY CROGMAN, ESQ., 

who is delegate from the Savannah Con- 
ference, is eminent as Professor of Classics in 
Clark University, Atlanta. He was born on 
the Island of St. Martin, May 5, 1841, and 
came to the United States in his fourteenth 



REPRESERTA TIJ 



year. After securing a good elementary edu- 
cation in district schools he spent some time 
in traveling;. Feeling; the need of a more 
thorough equipment for his chosen work of 
teaching, he took an extended course in Pierce 
Academy, Middleton, Mass., after which he 
spent three years as teacher in Clafflin Uni- 
versity, Orangeburg. Not satisfied with his 
attainments he spent three years studying in 
Atlanta University, and was graduated from 
its first college class in 1876. The same year 
he became connected with Clark University, 
where he still remains as senior professor. 
As a teacher Professor Crogman has secured 
for himself a brilliant reputation, and done 
work for the elevation of his race which 
baffles calculation. As a public speaker he 
is known to a large section of the American 
public. By special invitation he has delivered 
addresses before the American Missionary 
Association at Chicago, in behalf of the 
Freedmen's Aid Society at Ocean Grove, and 
on two occasions filled, by request, the pulpit 
of the late Henry Ward Beecher, in Brook- 
lyn. He has also figured as a prominent 
speaker at Chautauqua Island Park, and be- 
fore the National Association of Teachers. 
Many of these utterances have been published 
in pamphlet form, and deserve to rank as 
specimens of true oratory. The Savannah 
Conference has repeatedly elected him as its 
delegate to the General Conference. He 
served as an assistant secretary in the Gen- 
eral Conference of 1884. He was also ap- 
pointed a member of the Ecumenical Council 
in London, in 1881. His career is another 
lasting monument reflecting the power of 
persevering industry and unflinching fidelity. 



REV. WILLIAM MCKENDREE WORLEY. 

The subject of this sketch was born De- 
cember 23, 1839, in Vermilion County, 111. 
He sprang from Methodist stock, his parents 
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Church. At the early age of fourteen he was 
converted, and united with the Church. He 
served two enlistments in the army, in Com- 
pany C, 12th Illinois Infantry, and Company 
D, 135th Illinois Infantry. He went to Ne- 
braska in 1867, and was licensed to preach in 
1868 by Rev. C. W. Giddings. The Ne- 
braska Conference was his choice, and he 
joined it on trial. In 1873 he was ordained 
deacon by Bishop Andrews, and elder by 
Bishop Bowman in 1877 in Omaha. He has 
served a number of charges, and is at present 
on his second year in Schuyler, North Ne- 
braska Conference. Considerable success has 
attended him as a revivalist, but he has ex- 
celled especially in paying debts on church 
property, having never left a church in debt. 
At the present time he is President of the 
Board of Trustees of the Nebraska Central 
College. He is a strong adherent of the ad- 
vanced position held by Prohibitionists, and 
is a delegate to the National Prohibition Con- 
vention from the Third Congressional District. 
He is a brother of Rev. T. H. Worley, of the 
Nebraska Conference, and Rev. J. H. Worley, 
of Foochow Conference, China. 



HABBE VELDE, ESQ. 

Habbe Velde, Esq., is a well-known manu- 
facturer of Illinois, and a member of the 
firms of Messrs. T. & H. Smith & Co., and 
the Pekin Plow Co. He is a native of Ger- 
many, from the Province of Hanover, where 
he was born November 29, 1832. His parents 
were members in good standing in the Dutch 
Reformed Church. The devotion of his father 
to religious interests, and his unquestioned 
piety, led him to devote much time in the 
careful training of his children. The fruit of 
such care was realized in molding the char- 
acter of Mr. Velde. The family emigrated to 
America in 1847, and settled upon a farm in 
Kenosha County, Wis. Few were the Church 
privileges enjoyed. When nineteen years of 



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age Mr. Velde went to Pekin, 111., and was 
thrown among the German Methodists, as his 
relatives there were of that faith. Here the 
blessed treasure which he so much needed was 
-found — namely, a new heart. The joy of his 
conversion was emphatic, and soon thereafter 
the entire family united with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. His usefulness has been 
a distinguished mark of his Christian career. 
He has held various positions, as steward, 
trustee, and Sunday-school worker. In this 
latter work he is intensely devoted. He is 
one of the lay delegates from the St. Louis 
German Conference. 



CHESTER C. GAVER, ESQ. 

Chester C. Gaver, lay delegate from the 
Virginia Conference, was born in Frederick 
County, Md., July 4, 1841. When he was 
three years of age his parents removed to 
Loudoun County, Va., and here he has had 
his home and done his work since. He was 
converted at fifteen, and united with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Arnold Grove, 
Hillsboro Circuit. He was married to Miss 
Amelia F. Shriver, of Loudoun County, Va., 
in 1866. Their union has been blessed with 
six children, the four eldest of whom are ex- 
emplary and promising members of the Church. 

In his business capacity Mr. Gaver wields 
a many-sided influence. In addition to his 
farming and manufacturing enterprises he 
fills the office of Justice of the Peace, Public 
Notary and Fiduciary, and is much respected 
by the entire community. From his boyhood 
he has taken a deep interest in the prosperity 
of our Church, and put forth constant and 
judicious activities to promote her welfare. 
Much of his toil has been expended in the 
Sunday-school, of which he has been Superin- 
tendent for twenty-one years, having been 
secretary for some time previously. For some- 
what shorter periods he has filled the positions 
of class-leader and recording steward, though 



with no less distinguished zeal and fidelity. 
In these departments, as well as over our 
whole field, he cherishes any success vouch- 
safed beyond all other interests. 



REV. WILLIAM A. SPENCER, D.D. 

Rev. William A. Spencer, D.D., of the 
Hock River Conference, belongs to one of the 
families whose shining qualities have been no 
small factor in the growth of Methodism. His 
father, the honorable Judge Spencer, was a 
pioneer Methodist who settled at Rock Island, 
111., and wielded a commanding;; influence in 
that section of country. Here Dr. Spencer 
was born September 6, 1840. At the very 
early age of seven years he was converted and 
joined the Church. He prepared for college 
at Rock River Seminary, and was graduated 
A.B. from North-western University, Evans- 
ton, 111., in 1861. In September of that year 
he enlisted as private in the 8th Illinois 
Cavalry. He was promoted to the chaplaincy 
of his regiment in 1863, and held that office 
till mustered out with his regiment in 1865. 
Pursuing his studies, he was graduated B.D. 
from Garrett Biblical Institute, 1867, received 
oil trial the same year, and appointed to 
Camden Circuit, Central Illinois Conference. 
His marriage with Miss Eliza B. Sargent, of 
Rock Island, 111., took place on September 21, 
1868. After spending the full term as pastor 
of Peoria, III, he was appointed to Moline. 
During his stay on the latter charge his 
health broke down. With a view to recruit 
it he spent the interim between May, 1873, 
and September, 1874, in making a tour of the 
world in company with Bishop Harris. In 
1875 he was transferred to the Rock River 
Conference, within the bounds of which he 
has served on the following charges : State 
Street, Chicago ; Clark Street, Chicago ; Cen- 
tennial, Rockford; and Clark Street, Chicago, 
for second term. For a full term he served 
as Presiding Elder on the Dixon District, and 



J. H. Bayliss. 




A 



T. F. HlLDRETH. 




Geo. H. Bridgman. 




John E. Jones. 




J. Wernli. 



J. D. BOTKIN. 




Andrew J. Bigelow. 




J. P. Andrews. 



PLATE 



W. Swindells. 




John M. Reid. 




Edward Appleyard. 




John W. Butler. 




Daniel W. Hays. 

V. 



Manley S. Hard. 




J. H. Vincent. 




James Gillinder. 




J. D. Roberson. 




Theodore L. Flood. 



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was a member of the General Conference of 
1884. In 1885 he was elected Assistant Cor- 
responding Secretary of the Board of Church 
Extension. Every department of our work 
committed to his care has been permanently 
benefited by the exercise of his distinguished 
ability and devotedness. Two colleges com- 
bined to attest their recognition of his scholar- 
ship by bestowing academical honors ; namely, 
A.M. from North-western University in 1864, 
and D.D. from Garrett Biblical Institute in 
1885. 



WILLIS M. GRAVES, ESQ. 

The lay delegate of the North Carolina 
Conference, Willis M. Graves, was born of 
slave parents in Jackson, Miss., on the 4th 
of July, 1856. In the fall of 1859 he 
was taken into the State of North Carolina. 
He devoted himself carefully to study in 
the common schools of that State. By in- 
dustry, combined with great will power, he 
has made marked advancement. The excel- 
lent natural abilities he possesses have sig- 
nally aided him in his progress, and his 
eminent worthiness has been recognized 
in his election to the General Conference. 
He is an enthusiastic temperance advocate, 
and his thorough convictions are notable. No 
little honor has been accorded him in the 
locality from which he comes on account 
of his reputation as a lecturer. His constant 
devotion to the Church of his choice is un- 
questioned, and he is deeply interested in all 
the movements of the age looking toward the 
spread of righteousness and the upbuilding of 
Christ's kingdom. 



REV. ROBERT FORBES, D.D. 

At the head of the delegates from the Min- 
nesota Conference stands the well-known and 
honored name of Rev. Robert Forbes, D.D., 

who was born in Canada, November 13, 1844. 

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At thirteen years of age he found employment 
in a general store in a country village. He 
remained here for five years, at which time, 
when about eighteen years of age, he was con- 
verted through the instrumentality of Rev. 
Thomas Kelly, now of Philadelphia. At once 
he united with the Wesleyan Methodist 
Church, and feeling the necessity of a prepa- 
ration to preach the Gospel, a work to which 
he was called of God. he abandoned business 
pursuits, and spent the next eight years in 
study and teaching. In 1870 he entered the 
Minnesota Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and his career has been remark- 
ably successful. He has filled prominent 
appointments, and is at present stationed at 
Bates Avenue, St. Paul. He has held the 
position of secretary of his Conference since 
1881, and also of the Board of Trustees of 
Hamline University since 1882. He was 
elected to the General Conference on the first, 
ballot by the largest vote any man ever re- 
ceived in the Conference. He will do honor 
to the body to which he is elected by virtue 
of his distinguished qualities. 



REV. JOHN D. WALSH. 

Rev. John D. Walsh, delegate from Ken- 
tucky Conference, is a native of the State of 
New York. He was born in Battenville, 
Washington Count) 7 , in the year 1838. At 
ten years of age he commenced attending 
school in the winter terms, and by prosecuting 
this plan eventually succeeded in securing a 
good elementary education. He began his 
public career by teaching school in winter, 
steadily increasing his own information and 
attending to other duties in the meantime. 
His college life was spent in Greenwich and 
Cambridge Academies and Fort Edward In- 
stitute. Having completed half the scientific 
course in these institutions, he took up the 
classical, and entered Williams College as 
sophomore in 1865. His Church membership 



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dates back to 1860, and at Fond du Lac, Wis., 
he obtained his first license to preach in 1867. 
For some time after this be labored at Dan- 
ville and Harrodsburg, Ky., and became a 
member of the Kentucky Conference in the 
spring of 1869. During the nineteen years of 
his connection with the Conference he has 
filled several of its important charges with 
success, and is at present pastor of Grace 
Church, Newport. 

As Secretary of the Kentucky Conference 
lie has rendered efficient services extending 
over a period of seven years. He was elected 
to the General Conference of 1880. From De 
Pauw University he received the degree of 
A.M. in 1884. As a frequent writer to our 
Church papers his name is widely and favor- 
ably known, while his recent contributions to 
the Methodist Review have doubtless caused 
a large circle of its readers to wish for more 
from his powerful and polished pen. 

His earnest advocacy of the vigorous prose- 
cution of our work in the South, both anions; 
colored people and whites, will prove of last- 
ing benefit to the cause of Christ and the 
best interests of the nation at large. 



ABRAM R. COLBORN, ESQ. 

Abram R. Colborn, lay delegate from the 
North-west Indiana Conference, ranks among 
the many members of the present assembly 
who, born outside the States, have shared 
their many privileges and now reflect the util- 
ity of our institutions and aid in the execution 
of a high mission. He was born in the Do- 
minion of Canada, December 9, 1846, and emi- 
grated to Michigan when four years old. After 
school-days he served in the 30th Michigan 
Volunteers until the close of the war. Five 
years were spent as book-keeper for a lumber 
firm in Chicago, and at their expiration he 
commenced business with a small capital in 
Michigan City, Ind. This he lias since de- 
veloped by industry and integrity to an ex- 
tent of some §800,000 annually. 



His parents were pious, and trained him so 
in the nurture and admonition of the Lord 
that at nine years of age he joined the United 
Brethren Church, and was baptized a mem- 
ber of that communion. 

Marrying in 1872 a devoted Methodist 
lady, Miss K. J. Woods, of Michigan City, he 
was soon an active and devoted member of 
the same Church. For twelve years he has 
acted as trustee, and for an almost equal period 
has filled the office of Sunday-school super- 
intendent with signal advantage to the Church 
of which he is a valued member and official. 



Rev. DOCTOR F. BARNES, D.D. 

Rev. Doctor F. Barnes, delegate from Michi- 
gan Conference, owes the first part of his name 
to the fact that he was a seventh son, and there- 
fore, according to ideas then commonly held 
in parts of New England, destined to be the 
possessor of peculiar powers. 

He was bora at Vergennes, Vt., November 
22, 1838, and received his education at Wa- 
bash College, Ind. Having been converted at 
nineteen, and passing through the usual pre- 
liminary stages, he was admitted to the North- 
west Indiana Conference, under the presidency 
of Bishop Ames, in 1858. Since his transfer 
to the Michigan Conference, in 1866, most of 
his work has been performed within its bounds. 
He was elected to the General Conference in 
1876, and again in 1884, and in the former 
year was elected to the General Missionary 
Committee and Board of Church Extension. 
With consummate ability he discharged the 
duties of these important offices for four 
years. Since his election to the Book Com- 
mittee by the last General Conference he has 
rendered faithful and valuable service in that 
capacity. He urged upon the General Con- 
ference of 1876 the propriety of effecting 
such a change in the Discipline as that 
women could be elected members of Quar- 
terly Conferences, and framed the paragraph 



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describing the change there adopted. The 
forces so introduced can hardly be said to 
have reached finality yet. From De Pauw 
University he received the honorary degree 
of D.D. in 1887. 

Fifteen years of Dr. Barnes's laborious 
career have been spent on some of our best 
stations, and the present is his eleventh year 
in the Presiding Eldership. His business 
tact and managing ability have been exten- 
sively employed in college boards. The 
numerous responsible offices with which his 
brethren have intrusted him sufficiently at- 
test his wide-spread and well-deserved popu- 
larity. 



Rev. CHARLES FRISB1E CREIGHTON, D.D., 

avIio leads the delegation from Nebraska Con- 
ference, was born at Somerset, Perry County, 
O., November 30, 1849. His father, Dr. Jo- 
seph H. Creighton, was a prominent member 
of the Ohio Conference. His son's education 
was of the most liberal character, compre- 
hending prolonged studies in Trenton High 
School, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Drew 
Seminary. From the second of these institu- 
tions he graduated with A.B. in 1870, receiv- 
ing the degree of A.M. incursu in 1873, and 
the honorary degree of D.D. from the same 
University in 1886. 

He entered the North Ohio Conference in 
1872, and was transferred to the Ohio Con- 
ference next year. Through nervous prostra- 
tion he located for some time, but re-entered 
in 1875, serving at Alexandria, Harmar, Jack- 
son, Gallipolis, and Circleville. In Septem- 
ber, 1885, he was transferred to Nebraska 
Conference and stationed at St. Paul's, Lin- 
coln. Under his pastorate here a mighty re- 
vival took place, continuing for two years, 
resulting in such prosperity to St. Paul's 
Church that it became instrumental in the 
erection of Grace, Trinity, and West Lincoln 
Churches. The Nebraska Wesley an Univer- 
sity was instrumental in securing from the 



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city of Lincoln a property appraised at 
$276,000 for the founding of the University. 
By the appointment of a joint University 
Commission by Bishop Fowler in September, 
1886, this body unified the educational system 
of the State, reducing; existing colleges to 
courses of study ending with the sophomore 
year and founding the University at Lincoln. 
The main building is to cost $70,000, and the 
institution will be open in September, 1888. 

Dr. Creighton was elected Chancellor and 
entered upon his duties last September, a 
position for which his well-known energy and 
managing ability render him eminently fitted. 
The great success which attended all his pas- 
toral labors will doubtless lead many to re- 
gret his comparative retirement from the 
forefront of evangelistic enterprise ; but in 
the new sphere he will secure results for the 
Church of indispensable and permanent im- 
port. As the author of a valuable hand-book 
entitled Revival Methods, and several smaller 
works, as well as a frequent contributor to 
the religious press, he speaks to a wide circle 
of appreciative readers. 



Rev. JOHN LEEPER. 

John Leeper, delegate of the Southern Illi- 
nois Conference, is of Scotch ancestry, who 
were stanch Presbyterians of the psalm- 
singing school. He was born in Guernsey 
County, O., October 18, 1827, but moved to 
Perry County, 111., when ten years of age. 
Seizing the advantages within reach in his 
new surroundings, he acquired a fair educa- 
tion. His conversion and union with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church took place in 
1848. From that date he engaged vigorously 
in efforts to do good, and discharged the duties 
of class-leader and exhorter with diligence 
and efficiency. He was graduated from 
McKendree College in 1852, and four years 
later received on trial by the Southern Illi- 
nois Conference under the presidency of 
Bishop Simpson. 



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For over thirty-one years he has labored 
uninterruptedly on circuits, stations, and dis- 
tricts, according as the work has been as- 
signed him. Some of the best qualities for 
which his kith and kin are conspicuous have 
been brought to bear upon the work in these 
spheres, and with a degree of success which 
shows him beloved by the people, honored 
by his brethren, and approved of God, " a 
workman that needeth not to be ashamed." 



REV. AMON BOREING. 

Rev. Araon Boreing, who stands at the head 
of the Kentucky Conference delegation, was 
born in Washington County, Tenn., April 5, 
1842. On the first day of January, 1861, he 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South, in Laurel County, Ky. When, in 1866, 
our Church extended her organization into that 
County, it being the Church of his choice, he 
embraced an early opportunity to become 
an active member. He was licensed to preach 
in January, 18(37, and in the same year he 
was admitted to the Kentucky Conference. 
Since then he has remained a member of that 
body. His earnest labors in the cause of 
Methodism have won for him the sincere re- 
spect and love of his brethren. His affection 
for the Church is great, and he is in labors 
abundant, seeking by all possible means to 
advance its growth in influence, piety, and 
power. He is at present Presiding Elder of 
Covington District. 



Rev. CHARLES W. SMITH, D.D. 

Rev. Charles W. Smith, D.D., who heads 
the delegation of the Pittsburg Conference to 
the present General Conference, was born in 
Fayette County, Pa., January 30, 1840. He 
is the son of Rev. Wesley Smith, a vet- 
eran of the Pittsburg Conference. In early 
life he was converted, and immediately con- 



nected himself with the Church. After a 
careful preparation, he entered the Pittsburg 
Conference in 1859, when nineteen years of 
age. His advancement in the ministry was 
steady, and he attained what were among the 
best appointments in the Conference. He 
served four years as Presiding Elder of the 
Pittsburg District. He was elected as a 
delegate to the General Conferences of 1870, 
1884, and 1888, and was a reserve in 1880. 
The General Conference of 1884 honored him 
by electing him Editor of the Pittsburg 
Christian Advocate, which office he has filled 
with great credit and ability the past four 
years. In December, 1884, he was a repre- 
sentative to the Centennial Conference in Bal- 
timore. He was three years secretary of his 
Conference, and declined a re-election when in 
the Eldership. 

The pulpit abilities of Dr. Smith are of 
a high order, and his discourses give evidence 
of careful preparation ; they are methodical 
in arrangement, couched in eloquent lan- 
guage, and delivered with energy. In the 
details of the pastorate and the editorship he 
has been diligent and prompt, and, being 
naturally social, his intercourse with his wide 
circle of acquaintances has been- especially 
beneficial. He has a wife and three children, 
his eldest son being now ready to enter the 
ministry. 



Rev. JAMES H. POTTS, D.D. 

Rev. James IT. Potts, D.D., of the Michi- 
gan Conference, is a native of Canada, and 
was born June 12, 1848. With his fathers 
family he moved to Michigan in the year 
1857. At the early age of sixteen he taught 
school. At the close of the school term he 
enlisted in the 6th Michigan Cavalry, serving 
until the mustering out of the famous Michigan 
Cavalry Brigade. Dr. Potts graduated from 
theMayhew Business College, Albion, intend- 
ing to follow commercial pursuits. Convert- 
ed at the age of seventeen, he almost inline- 



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diately received license to exhort and preach, 
and in 1869 he joined the Michigan Con- 
ference. He was ordained deacon in 1871 ; 
elder in 1873. On September 7, 1869, he was 
united in marriage with Miss A. C. Cole, of 
West Le Roy. He served with success sev- 
eral appointments, and was requested in 1877 
to enter the office of the Michigan Christian 
Advocate, in the capacity of office editor. 
Within three years he was elected associate 
editor, and in 1865 elected editor-in-chief. He 
received the honorary degree of A.M. from 
North-western University in 1882, and that 
of D.D. from Albion College in 1885. He 
is an author of acknowledged ability, having 
written a number of books and tracts. Soon 
after he returned from the army his hearing 
became impaired, which difficulty steadily 
increased, until he now hears no sounds what- 
ever, and is compelled to receive all com- 
munications in writing. He is probably the 
first totally deaf man ever elected to the 
General Conference. 



REV. HORACE REED, D.D. 

Horace Reed is a native of Geauga County, 
O., where lie was born on the 9th of January, 
1811. He was converted in 1856, and was 
first licensed to preach by the Sinking Spring 
Circuit, Cincinnati Conference, July 20, 1860. 
He served one year as supply, and then 
entered the army. He was in one year pros- 
trated by disease, and his life was despaired 
of. His recovery was almost miraculous. In 
1864 he united with the Cincinnati Conference. 
In 1868 he was transferred to the Southern 
Illinois, and three years later to the Illinois 
Conference, with which body he has since 
been identified. He is a strong and most 
successful preacher, commanding by universal 
assent prominent appointments. 

Dr. Reed is another type of the self-made 
man. Left an orphan at an early age, he 
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single-handed conflict with the world. While 
.heir to no material wealth, the riches of early 
Christian training by pious parents were his. 
At the age of sixteen he bought of a Meth- 
odist itinerant a copy of the Life of Rev. 
George W. Walker, paying for it in install- 
ments from scanty wages as a farm boy. 
This was an epoch in his life. The book 
made a profound and lasting impression upon 
his young heart, and molded his future char- 
acter and career. He is a man of deep piety, 
a wise counselor, and full of energetic pur- 
pose. 



REV. JESSE FRANKLIN CORE. 

Jesse Franklin Core was born September 
15, 1816, in Washington County, Pa. In 1863, 
then seventeen years of age, he ran aw r ay and 
joined the army under General B. T. Kelly, at 
Petersburg, W. Va., but was not enlisted, be- 
ing under the required age. He enlisted in 
the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, in January, 
1864, and served until September, 1865. 
He was twice wounded, and has in his pos- 
session many testimonials from general offi- 
cers of his gallantly as a soldier. He also 
served from 1875 to 1878 on the staff of 
Major-General Thomas F. Gallagher as' Major 
and Aid-de-camp. At the close of the war he 
went South, and attended the Methodist Col- 
lege at Millersbu rg, Ky. He received license 
to preach in 1867 from Rev. Charles Taylor, of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He 
traveled Cambria Missions in 1867-68, as sup 
ply, under Presiding Elder Thomas McCleary, 
D.D. He entered the Pittsburg Conference 
in 1868, and since then has filled numerous 
important charges. He served as Presiding 
Elder of Blairsville District, 1883-87. His 
present station is at Wilkinsburg, a suburb of 
East End, Pittsburg. He was for six years 
a member of the Board of Trustees of 
Pittsburg Female College. He was elected 
delegate to the General Conference on the 
first ballot. 



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Rev. JULIUS FRANKLIN MARSHALL. 

Julius Franklin Marshall was born near 
Richmond, in Virginia, April 16, 1847. Most 
of his life has been spent in Louisiana, where 
he moved at the early age of two years. He 
was a slave up to the close of the late Civil 
War, the property of Mrs. Mary Chevis Wa- 
ters, the wife of Rev. J. H. Waters, a preacher 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
He had a pious, praying mother, who died 
when he was only eleven years old, but whose 
religious instructions and impressions have 
been to him a present stimulant to right living 
all through his history. He was converted at 
nineteen, and licensed an exhorter. In 1872 
he received license as local preacher, and in 
1877 was admitted on trial in the Louisiana 
Conference, with which he is still connected. 
On the 16th of January, 1878, he was married 
to Miss Alice M. Smith. Appointments of 
importance in Alexandria, Shreveport, and 
New Orleans have been from time to time 
assigned him. In 1886 he was appointed Pre- 
-i< I in-' Khler, and still holds thai appointment. 
He was elected alternate four years ago to 
the General Conference, and this year as a 
delegate. His career is most wonderful, he 
having had but two years in school altogether 
in his life. His success has been highly com- 
mended, and deservedly so. 



HON. GEORGE W. ATKINSON, PH.D. 

Hon. George W. Atkinson leads the lay 
delegation from the West Virginia Confer- 
ence. He is in his forty-second year, and is a 
native of West Virginia. He is of Methodist 
ancestry, and has been a member in good 
standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church 
for twenty-three years. He has occupied the 
official positions of steward, trustee, Sabbath- 
school superintendent, local preacher, and has 
filled them all well. He was educated in 
public and private schools, and in Ohio Wes- 



leyan University, receiving the degree of M.A. 
in 1876; took the post-graduate course at 
Mount Union College, Ohio, and received the 
degree of Ph.D., pro merito, in 1877. Subse- 
quently he studied law, and was admitted to 
the bar. Official positions thrust upon him 
led him to suspend the practice of his pro- 
fession a few years. He was post-master 
at Charleston, W. Va., six years ; special agent 
of the United States Treasury four years, 
and United States Marshal four years. 
His fidelity in these offices secured his pro- 
motion to positions of Governor of West Vir- 
ginia, and United States Senator. He pos- 
sesses great popularity and almost unlimited 
energy. He is six feet and a half inch in 
height, and of commanding presence. He 
was the youngest representative in the 
General Conference of 1876. His ability as 
an author is well and favorably known. 
Among his works are After the Moonshiners; 
A, B, C of the Tariff; Don't, or Negative 
Chips from Blocks of Living Truths, etc. 



Rev. GEORGE W. GUE. 



George W. Gne was born in Neville, Cler- 
mont County, O., February 27, 1840. In 
early life he removed to Ripley, O., where 
he remained until ten years of age (1850), 
when he moved to Groveland, 111. ; the next 
year to Princeville, 111., where he remained 
until he entered the ministry. His father had 
been a steamboat captain on Western rivers, 
but at the time of his death, in 1852, was en- 
gaged in mercantile pursuits. Mr. Gue was 
sent for a few months to school at Mount 
Morris Seminary, 111., and the year follow- 
ing in the Academy at Brimfield. He 
united with the Church in 1857, and again 
entered school at Princeville. He studied 
from this time for the ministry, and in 1859 
was admitted on trial, in the Peoria, now the 
Central Illinois, Conference. He filled vari- 
ous charges, and in 1862 he was elected Chap- 



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lain of the 108th Illinois Regiment (Volun- 
teer), rendezvousing at Peoria. He remained 
with them three years, and was in many bat- 
tles. An honorable discharge from the service 
was given him at Yicksburg in August, 1865. 
He returned to ministerial fields of labor after 
his discharge. He -was united in marriage 
with Miss Anna Roberts, of Morton, 111., in 
December, 1864. In 1871 he was transferred 
to the Nebraska Conference. There he was 
elected first County Superintendent of Public 
Instruction. He was stationed at the First 
Church, Omaha, in 1872. In order to fill a 
position to which he had been called, he lo- 
cated at the end of that year. He regretted 
the necessity of locating, and as soon there- 
after as opportunity presented he re-entered the 
work in the Central Illinois Conference. This 
was in 1873. The next year he served as Fi- 
nancial Agent of Illinois Wesleyau University. 
In 1880 he was appointed Presiding Elder, 
and in 1884 was a delegate to the General 
Conference. He is now pastor at Rock Island. 



JOHN H. WILKINS, M.D. 

John H. Wilkins, one of the lay delegates 
from Texas Conference, was born in Elbert 
County, Ga., in 1853. He first learned the 
alphabet in 1868. The advantages of a 
country school were afforded him a few 
months each year until 1874. In that year 
he entered Clark University, and was a faith- 
ful attendant until 1878, when in the fall of 
that year he entered Meharry Medical Col- 
lege at Nashville, Tenn. In 1875 be united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Mor- 
rison's Chapel, in Elbert County, Ga. He 
graduated in medicine in 1880, and entered 
upon the practice of his profession. On the 
20th of May, 1880, he united in marriage with 
Miss Cornelia A. Hayden, of Spring Hill, 
Tenn. He went to Texas in the fall of 1883, 
and located at Galveston, where he has 
an extensive practice. 



Rev. JOHN W. T0LAND. 

The subject of this brief biographical sketch 
is a native of Ohio. His birthplace was in 
Carroll County, where he was born October 
22, 1847. When the Civil War began he 
promptly responded to President Lincoln's call 
for troops, though only fourteen years of age, 
and served three years. He was probably 
the youngest soldier who served in the war. 
While attending Scio College he united with 
the Church ; this was on the 15th day of May, 
1869, one month before his graduation. lie 
identified himself with the Pittsburg Confer- 
ence in March, 1870. At the time of the di- 
vision of the Conference he chose the East 
Ohio. He has done excellent service in his 
Conference, serving important charges. He 
is now Presiding Elder of Canton District. 
His election to the General Conference is an 
evidence of the hisrh esteem in which he is 
held by his Conference. He is a plain, prac- 
tical preacher, a master of wit and pathos, 
with which he never fails to interest and build 
up his congregations. His fearlessness and 
skill as an expositor of spiritualistic frauds is 
noteworthy. Fie has written some cogent ar- 
ticles upon the relation of spiritualism to the 
divorce question. 



PROF. THOMAS A. F0RTS0N. 

Thomas Amariah Fortson, the first lay del- 
egate from Savannah Conference, is at pres- 
ent Professor in Clark University. He was 
born in Elbert County, Ga., January 1, 1854, 
and spent the years of boyhood on farms in 
Elbert and Clayton Counties. He was ad- 
mitted into Clark Theological Seminary (now 
Clark University), Atlanta, Ga., in 1874, and 
remained a student there four years. In 1879 
he became a student of Central Tennessee 
College, Nashville, Tenn., graduating in 1881, 
and the same year was appointed instructor 
in Bennett Seminary, Greensborough, N. C. 



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For five years he held this position, during 
which time he performed diligent and efficient 
service in educational work. Subsequent to 
this he was employed as teacher of mathe- 
matics in Clark University. The degree of 
A.M. was awarded him by his alma mate?' in 
1884. He was united in marriage to Micca 
C. Hayden, August 3, 1886. The honor 
conferred upon him has been most worthily 
bestowed. 



REV. DAVID H. MOORE. D.D. 

David H. Moore was born near Athens, 
O., September -1, 1838. His parents still re- 
side there, loved and honored by a wide cir- 
cle of friends. In 1 860 he was graduated B.A. 
from Ohio University. Entering the Ohio 
Conference in the fall of 1860, he was sent to 
Bainbridge Circuit as junior preacher, his 
colleague being the Rev. E. H. Dixon. He 
was married the same year to Miss Julia S. 
Carpenter, of Athens, who has nobly shared 
his t rials and labors. In 1861 he was stationed 
at Marietta. The Civil War was on. He did 
valiant service in raising volunteers, and in 
May, 1862, volunteered as a private, but was 
elected Captain of Company A, 87th Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. He was surrendered by 
General Miles at Harper's Ferry, but was pa- 
roled at once and soon exchanged. He assisted 
in raising the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
of which he was Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. 
He served in East Tennessee, and in the 
Atlanta campaign. 

After the fall of Atlanta he returned to 
civil life, and renewed his ministerial labors 
in Ohio, serving prominent churches in the 
Ohio and Cincinnati Conferences. In 1875 
he was made President of the Cincinnati 
AVeslcyan College for Women, resigning in 
1880 to pioneer our educational work in Col- 
orado, as President of the Colorado Seminary 
and Chancellor of the University of Denver, 
which position he now occupies. lie has also 
served congregations in Denver as pastor. 



With liberal supporters, hearty sympathy, 
and wise counsel, he has seen a noble insti- 
tution grow up from nothing, and is devoting 
himself with unswerving aim in carrying the 
University to yet grander results. 

His A.M. is from his alma mater, and his 
D.D. is from the Ohio Wesleyan University. 



REV. WILLIAM B. WATKINS. 

William Brown Watkins, who is delegate 
from Pittsburg Conference, is a native of Bel- 
mont County, O. On May 2, 1834, he was 
born, in Bridgeport. He received his educa- 
tion and spent his early life in the city of 
Wheeling, Va. Before entering the ministry 
he was engaged in teaching and journalistic 
work. His connection with the active work 
dates from the Pittsburg Conference of 1856, 
during which time he has filled the following 
appointments : First, three years on circuits 
in Ohio, then stationed at Cambridge, O., and 
New Brighton, Pa., of which latter he is now 
pastor for the second term. He served for 
three years in Trinity Church, Pittsburg, and 
in 1869 was appointed Presiding Elder of 
Steubenville District. Since his return to the 
pastorate his charges have been at McKees- 
port, Johnstown, and Smithfield Street, Pitts- 
burg. The period thus covered has been full 
of hallowed toil and productive of happy re- 
sults. Throughout his ministry he has ear- 
nestly pursued the study of philology, and by 
his lectures delivered in many States has done 
much to render the science of language in- 
creasingly popular. He has given consider- 
able attention to the subject of teaching, has 
frequently addressed teachers' institutes, and 
is the author of educational works now largely 
used by teachers. 

He received the degree of A.M. from Alle- 
gheny College, Meadville, Pa., and that of 
D.D. from Mount Union College, Ohio. 

A few years ago he spent a summer travel- 
ing through sixteen European countries, add- 



R. S. Borland. 



William Brush. 



Habbe Velde. 



Paul Quattlanhf.r. 




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iu£ thereby fresh stores to his varied resources. 
Both as pastor and author he labored on with 
unabating zeal to promote the interests of the 
Church and generation in which he has won 
his excellent reputation. 



REV. JAMES W. MENDENHALL, PH.D., D.D. 

Rev. James William Mendenhall, who leads 
his delegation by the largest vote ever given 
by the North Ohio Conference to a delegate, 
is a widely known and distinguished preacher 
and author. On the eighth day of November, 
1844, he was born in Ohio. In 1862 he grad- 
uated from the Scientific Department of Ohio 
Wesleyan University, and in 1864 from the 
Classical. In the summer of 1864 he devoted 
his time in the service of the Christian Com- 
mission, in Tennessee and Georgia. September 
8, 1864, he entered the Cincinnati Conference, 
relinquishing the law, which he had studied 
and chosen as a profession. He entered the 
ministry out of pure loyalty to conscience. 
He served in the capacity of President of 
Fremont Collegiate Institute, Des Moines 
Conference, 1867-68, and was transferred to 
North Ohio Conference in 1869, and is still 
an efficient member. In 1871 he traveled 
extensively in Utah and California ; in 1881 
made his famous Old World tour, which in- 
cluded Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece, 
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria. Dr. Mendenhall 
is the well-known author of Echoes from 
Palestine, published in 1883 ; and of Plato 
and Paul; or, Philosophy and Christianity, 
published in 1886. He has several unpub- 
lished books in manuscript, ready for the 
press. He has contributed extensively for 
twenty years to newspaper and periodical 
literature. A wide field of themes has been 
covered by his articles, embracing philosoph- 
ical, scientific, political, social, and religious 
subjects. An eminent writer has said of him, 
"He disembowels a book with the delicacy of 
a McClintock, and the penetrating criticism of 



a Jeffrey." He is a specialist in literatures 
and philosophies, and makes it his weekly 
task to review at least one book. In 1880 
Mt. Union College conferred upon him, pro 
merito, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 
and in 1884 he received the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity from Ohio Wesleyan University. 
He served in the General Conference of 1884 
on important committees, and received a large 
vote for the Editorship of the Western Chris- 
tian Advocate. 



HERMANN H. JACOBY, ESQ. 

Hermann H. Jacoby, lay delegate from St. 
Louis German Conference, is the son of Rev. 
L. S. Jacoby, D.D., who was the first mission- 
ary sent by the Methodist Episcopal Church 
to Germany. He was born in Bremen, Ger- 
many, October 14, 1850, and trained in the 
fear of God by his pious parents. In his 
seventeenth year he embraced religion, and at 
once became an earnest worker in the Sunday- 
school. In 1869 he came to this country and 
served in the position of clerk in the River- 
side Press at Cambridge, Mass. He remained 
in this situation until June, 1874, when he 
was called to the death-bed of his father, who 
had returned to the United States and taken 
a charge in the scene of his first appointment, 
at St. Louis, Mo. In order to be near his aged 
mother he remained in St. Louis, and accepted 
a very favorable offer of a partnership in a 
retail grocery. He is still engaged in the 
groceiy trade, with two of his brothers, sell- 
ing goods directly to the consumer in the 
country tributary to St. Louis. He is a 
member of the German Methodist Episcopal 
Church on Eighth and Soulard Streets. He 
is a local preacher, Sunday-school superintend- 
ent, chorister, trustee, and steward. With 
the old Methodistic fire which burned so 
ardently in his father's heart he works un- 
ceasingly for the German Methodist Church. 
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his father gave the best years of li is life. 
Mr. Jacoby is deeply convinced that the Ger- 
man Church has a duty to perform, that is, 
to look after the German immigrants and 
those who either cannot or will not attend an 
English church. He endeavors to prove a 
worthy son of his heroic father, and main- 
tains an earnest and consistent Christian life, 
ever carrying as his motto Matthew xvi, 26. 



REV. ALPHA J. KYNETT, D.D., LL.D. 

Rev. Alpha J. Kynett, D.D., LL.D., del- 
egate from Upper Iowa Conference, is a na- 
tive of Adams County, Pa., where he was 
born August 12, 1829. The advantages 
of a new country were secured for him by 
successive removals to the Western Reserve, 
Indiana, and Iowa. Although deprived of 
college training, its place was fairly supplied 
by the private instructions of Oswald War- 
rington, a superior teacher, and a graduate of 
Oxford University, England. He was ad- 
mitted to the Iowa Conference in 1851, and 
spent nine years as pastor on five of the prin- 
cipal charges within its bounds. He was also 
Presiding Elder of the Davenport District for a 
full term. With far-seeing wisdom he or- 
ganized the Upper Iowa Church Extension 
Society, and acted as its Secretary for three 
years. The benefits accruing from a plan so 
wisely conceived and ably administered have 
been wide-spread, abiding', and incalculable. 
In 1867, on the death of Dr. Monroe, Dr. 
Kynett was appointed by the bishops to his 
present position, which he has filled by the 
almost unanimous election of the General 
Conference ever since. When he came to 
office the Parent Society was $300,000 be- 
hind appropriations made by the Committee, 
and quite unable to meet the pressing demands 
of our work by adherence to existing lines. 
Dr. Kynett studied the methods pursued by 
sister Churches in this country and by AVes- 
leyans in Great Britain, with the result that I 



he succeeded in securing in 1872 the com- 
plete reconstruction of our system for Church 
extension. 

The Society was superseded by the Board 
of Church Extension, and the choice of man- 
agement transferred from the Annual Meet- 
ing in Philadelphia to the General Confer- 
ence. He also prepared the plans for our 
permanent Loan Fund, procured the pub- 
lication of our Church Manual, first by rec- 
ommendation of its publication by the General 
Conference of 1876, and then by order of 
that of 1880. For the last three or four 
years he has been managing editor of this 
useful periodical. Astonishing success has at- 
tended the working of his schemes. Under 
his administration the Board has collected and 
disbursed over $3,250,000, of which $600,000 
is a permanent Loan Fund. Half a million 
this has been returned and re-loaned, while 
altogether more than six thousand churches 
have been aided. 

These numerous monuments will speak 
something of the industry of this silent toiler. 
His brethren of the Upper Iowa Conference 
have elected him to General Conference for 
the seventh time in succession. 



GOVERNOR R. TOWNSEND, M.D. 

Governor R. Townsend, M.D., the lay dele- 
gate from West Texas Conference, is a native 
of North Carolina. In April 26, 1856, he 
was born in Robinson County, in that State. 
His parents, Ephraim and Annie Townsend, 
were slaves. In 1861 his father died, and 
his mother married Richard Leech. 

Some years elapsed before schools for col- 
ored people were established in that portion 
of the country, and therefore, being unable to 
go to distant places for an education, he sought 
and obtained instruction from persons in the 
private walks of life. In 1870 he attended 
school near Alfordsville, in Robinson County. 
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African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Avas 
anions; the teachers there. During vaca- 
tions young Townsend would teach, in order 
to be able to attend the sessions when held. 
In 1875 he entered Whiten Hall Normal 
School, Lumberton, N. C. He also attended 
in 1877-78 Bennett Seminary, Greeusborougli, 
N. C. After his conversion he returned to 
Whiten Hall Normal School and graduated 
in 1880. He was compelled during his whole 
school-life to rely upon his own resources for 
means to secure his education. In 1879 he 
began to study medicine under Dr. Rutherford, 
and was accounted competent to fill the po- 
sition of prescription clerk, which position he 
held for a year. In the fall of 1880 he en- 
tered Meharry Medical College. In 1881 he 
went to Texas to teach, intending to return 
to college the next year for graduation. He 
was, however, much needed there as an edu- 
cator, and was induced to remain till 1883. 
He was very successful, conducting normal 
schools in which more than fifty teachers 
were better prepared for their vocations. In 
1883 he graduated with honors at Meharry 
Medical College, and married Miss Lena Lee 
December 11, 1884. He practices medicine 
at Victoria. 



REV. SAMUEL A. COWAN. 

Samuel A. Cowan, of the Mississippi Con- 
ference, was born near Abbeville, S. C, Sep- 
tember 15, 1853. At the age of three he 
was sold, with his brother and sister, and was 
carried to Mississippi. He was held by his 
owner until 1869. In August, 1865, he was 
led to Christ, and joined the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, South, but joined the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church as soon as it was 
organized in Mississippi. He attended the 
common schools four months annually for 
three years, and entered Shaw (now Rust) 
University, Holly Springs, Miss., in the spring 
of 1874. During vacations he taught in the 
common schools. In 1879 he was ordained 



deacon by Bishop Andrews. While pastor 
at Holly Springs he studied at Rust Uni- 
versity. In June, 1884, he was graduated, 
and in 1885 located and entered the Gammon 
School of Theology, Atlanta, Ga. He was 
soon urgently solicited to take charge of our 
work at Vicksburg, where he is serving his 
third year, and is endeavoring to complete a 
new church edifice. 

At the last session of his Conference he 
was elected to the General Conference on the 
first ballot, receiving the highest vote cast. 



REV. SAMUEL McGERALD. 

Rev. Samuel McGerald, delegate from Gen- 
esee Conference, was born in Antrim County, 
Ireland, in the year 1833. His parents were 
consistent members of the Roman Catholic 
Church. At the age of twelve he came with 
the family to America and settled in Canada. 
After spending three years there he removed 
to Rochester, N. Y., where for the first time 
he was brought directly under strong Chris- 
tian influence. Deep dissatisfaction and ear- 
nest craving for rest soon followed. Relief 
was sought in the diligent and prayerful 
study of God's word, and after fifteen months 
he passed " from darkness into marvelous 
light." Meeting the persecution which en- 
sued with unyielding faith, he but grew 
thereby. In the year 1856 he joined the 
East Genesee Conference, and has since la- 
bored in it and in the Western New York 
and Genesee Conferences with marked effi- 
ciency and success. Under his ministry a 
remarkable revival took place at Albion, 
N. Y.j doubling the membership and neces- 
sitating the enlargement of the edifice. The 
importance of such a tide of prosperity at 
that juncture may be inferred from the fact 
that it was the first ingathering to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church which took 
place after the secession of the Free Method- 
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untiring energy vast debts have been liqui- 
dated, notably at Riverside, Buffalo, where 
$16,000 was raised, largely apart from local 
resources. His best attention has been devoted 
to Sunday-school work along Chautauqua 
lines. Since the inception of that movement 
he has been a teacher and lecturer under its 
auspices. At the request of the Genesee 
Conference of 1885 Bishop Hurst appointed 
him Editor of the Buffalo Christian Ad- 
vocate. Under his management this journal 
has put on new vigor, and within two years 
increased its circulation seven-fold. 



Rev. BENJAMIN F. W. COZIER. 

Benjamin F. W. Cozier, one of the dele- 
gation from the Des Moines Conference, was 
born in Adams County, Pa., near the famous 
battle-field of Gettysburg, September 24, 1836. 
His parents emigrated to Ohio in the same 
year, and located in what is now Hardin 
County. He united with the Church in 1852, 
and shortly after was licensed to exhort. He 
entered the Ohio AVesleyan University, but 
before the completion of his college course he 
commenced preaching, and in the fall of 1858 
joined the Central Ohio Conference. He 
served faithfully as Chaplain in the Third 
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from May, 1864, to 
the close of the war, and was mustered out in 
August, 1865. In 1870 he was transferred to 
the Des Moines Conference. While pastor at 
Sioux City the Conference was divided, and 
the North-west Iowa Conference was organ- 
ized. At the expiration of his term here, in 
1873, he was re-transferred to Des Moines 
Conference, and two years later was made 
Presiding Elder of Council Bluffs District. 
The next year r lie districts were reconstructed, 
and he was assigned to Corning District, and 
served the full term of four years. 

Brother Cozier is now serving the fourth 
year of a very successful supervision of the 
Boone District. 



JAMES HARRISON BUNN. 

The subject of this sketch was born of 
Methodist parents in Ross County, O., on the 
6th of June, 1830. He was converted at the 
age of nine years, and joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at the age of nineteen. 
While yet a boy he was appointed class-lender 
in McConnellsville, O. He moved to La 
Salle County, 111., in 1851, where he held the 
positions of class-leader, trustee, and Sunday- 
school superintendent. In 1854 he went to 
Peoria, 111., which has since been his home. 
As a citizen of Peoria he has been closely 
identified with every important interest, and 
in all the work of the Church he has for 
thirty-four years been at the very front. 

Brother Bunn is a prosperous and enter- 
prising merchant, his business being that of 
a packer and dealer in meats. 

In the First Church of Peoria, Central Ill- 
inois Conference, he fills the positions of class- 
leader, Sunday-school superintendent, mem- 
ber and treasurer of the Board of Trustees 
and of the Board of Stewards. He is a mem- 
ber of the Conference Board of Church Ex- 
tension, a member of the Board of Church 
Location of Peoria District ; a trustee of the 
Wesleyan University at Bloomington, 111. ; a 
director of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation of Peoria; an advisory member of the 
Board of Missions of the Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union of Peoria ; and a director 
of the Peoria County Bible Society. 



REV. ANDREW HAAGENSEN. 

Rev. Andrew Haagensen, delegate from 
the Norwegian and Danish Conference, had 
the foundations of his career amply laid amid 
Norwegian surroundings. Born at Sarpsborg, 
October 16, 1835, he reaped the advantages 
of thorough training and liberal education 
in that vicinity. In early life he was a mem- 
ber of the State Chinch, but upon his con- 
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tersou, the founder of Methodism in Norway, 
he withdrew from that community in order to 
organize the Methodist Church there. Exer- 
cisins: his o-ifts and talents with signs follow- 
ing, he was eventually licensed to preach, in 
1857, but transferred his labors to this country 
the same year. He entered the Wisconsin 
Conference on probation in 1858, and after 
transfer to the West Wisconsin Conference 
was ordained elder by Bishop Simpson in 
1860. During the nine years which succeeded 
he served in the pastorate with a degree of 
acceptance and success which led to his being 
appointed Presiding Elder of the Norwegian 
District, Wisconsin Conference. This posi- 
tion he held for seven consecutive years. In 
1876, and again in 1884, he was elected reserve 
delegate to the General Conference. 

Besides these he has achieved additional 
distinction by his connection with the press. 
When the first Norwegian monthly, TJie Mis- 
sionary, was published, in 1870, he became 
associate editor. He was appointed editor 
of Den Christelege Talsmand in 1880, and 
in his hands this organ became a mighty 
auxiliary in mission work. He has com- 
posed and translated a number of hymns, and 
is the author of a trenchant volume entitled 
Lutheranism and Methodism Compared. 

At present he is Presiding Elder of the 
Chicago District. His name will be perma- 
nently associated with the toils and triumphs 
of our mission work for his countrymen at 
home and abroad. 



PHILIP WESLEY KOST, ESQ. 

The West German Conference honored 
itself and the above-named intensely loyal 
layman by electing him a delegate to the 
General Conference. He is the eldest son of 
Rev. J. G. Kosf, a faithful German Methodist 
minister, and was born at Valley Mines, near 
De Soto, Mo., in 1851. By birth, rearing, 
education, precept, and practice he is a 
Methodist, loving the Church, and being 



especially attached to the interests of German 
Methodism. He is widely known as a 
professor of music, earnestly devoted to the 
higher culture of the " art divine." He is 
connected with all the leading musical enter- 
prises and societies, and is at present the 
conductor of a prominent male chorus, the 
Apollo Club, of St. Joseph, Mo., where he 
now resides. 

Mr. Kost has been repeatedly elected 
Sunday-school superintendent, and for eight 
years has occupied a place of honor in the 
official board of his church. Public-spirited 
and generous, every worthy movement for 
the elevation of his fellow-men commands his 
hearty co-operation and active sympathy. 



CHARLES WILLIAM SUPER, Ph.D. 

lay delegate from the Ohio Conference, was 
born in Pottsville, Pa., September 12, 1842. 
He prepared for college at Union Seminary, 
New Berlin, Pa., and entered sophomore at 
Dickinson College, being graduated A.B. in 
1866. Shortly after he went to Canfield, O., 
to teach, and in December, 1867, married 
Mary Louise Clewell, of that place. In 1869 
he went to Europe, and studied philology at 
the University of Tubingen, traveling during 
vacations. On his return he taught at 
Frederica, Del., whence he went, in 1872, to 
the Cincinnati Wesleyan College as teacher 
of languages, continuing until 1878. In the 
following year he was elected Professor of 
Greek and German in the Ohio University, 
at Athens. In 1882 he again went to Eu- 
rope, traveling extensively and examining the 
school systems of England, France, Germany, 
and Switzerland. In 1883 he was appointed 
temporarily President of the Ohio University, 
and one year later was unanimously elected 
President by the Board of Trustees. 

Dr. Super has been a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church since 1865. He 
has contributed very largely to the periodical 
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and is uow joint editor of the Journal of 
Pedagogy. He is the translator and an- 
notator of Weil's Order of Words, recently 
published by Ginn <fe Co., of Boston, and is 
at present at work on a History of the 
German Language, which will probably 
appear during the current year. In 1874 
he received the degree of Ph.D. from Illinois j 
AVesleyan University upon examination and 
a thesis on the Latin perfect. 



Rev. CHARLES 0. McCULLOCH. 

Charles O. McCulloch, son of David L. 
and Harriet Riley McCulloch, was born at La- 
trobe, Pa., November 21, 1851. His father, 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 135th Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, died from exposure to inclement 
weather, July, 1863, leaving his mother and 
seven children to the struggle of life without 
pecuniary resources. He removed with his 
mother, March 14, 18G5, to Illinois, where 
for several years he engaged in manual labor 
for the support of younger brothers and sis- 
ters. He was graduated, in the classical 
course, from Grand Prairie Seminary in 1872, 
and in September of that year began to travel 
as a supply in Central Illinois Conference. 
In 1873 he was admitted as a probationer in 
the same Conference, was admitted into full 
connection in 1875, ordained deacon by 
Bishop Ames in September, 1875, and or- 
dained elder by Bishop Merrill in 1877. He 
was married to Miss Carrie Campbell, No- 
vember 2, 1 876. Following is an outline of his 
ministerial service: Piper City, 1872-75; Gil- 
man, 1875-78; Watselea, 1878-80; Dwight, 
1880-81; Peoria, Hale Chapel, 1881-81; 
Abingdon, 1884-86, and Presiding Elder of 
Kankakee District since 1886. 

Brother McCulloch is an earnest and effi- 
cient worker for God and the Church, faith- 
fully discharging every duty of his high 
calling. He enjoys the honor of being the 
leader of his Conference delegation. 



Rev. PETER A. COOL 

was born in Salem, O., April 6, 1850. With 
his parents he removed to Illinois in 1854 
and settled in Knox County. He was grad- 
uated from Hedding College, at Abingdon, 
111., in 1870, and in August of the same year 
was married to Miss Lucy McCartney, a 
sister of the ex- Attorney-General of the State 
of Illinois. In obedience to the call to the 
work of the ministry he united with the 
Central Illinois Conference in 1870, and was 
stationed successively at Hermon, North 
Henderson, Peoria Mission, Lewiston, Canton, 
Dwight, and Galva. At the Conference 
session of 1885 he was appointed by Bishop 
Warren Presiding Elder of the Rock Island 
District, which position he still most success- 
fully fills. 

Brother Cool is a thorough student and a 
systematic and faithful pastor. As a preacher 
he takes high rank among the brethren of 
his Conference, and is also well known on 
the lecture platform. He is actively inter- 
ested in all the great connectional interests of 
Methodism, and last year his district reported 
a gratifying advance over the million-dollar 
line for missions. As a proof of his popu- 
larit} r among the preachers, he was elected on 
the first ballot to represent his brethren in 
the General Conference. 



REV. SEABORN C. UPSHAW. 

Seaborn C. U pshaw, who is a delegate from 
Savannah Conference, was born in Elbert 
County, Ga., in April, 1843. At the age of 
seventeen he was taken by his owner to the 
State of Alabama. When emancipated he 
moved to Rome, Ga., and with his brother en- 
gaged in mercantile business. After his con- 
version he became possessor of a deep con- 
viction that he must preach the Gospel. To 
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the Rome High School, under the auspices of 
the Freedraen's Aid Society. After two years 
there he took courses in Atlanta and Clark 
Universities. Uniting with the Savannah Con- 
ference in 1876, he still pursued his scientific 
and theological studies in Clark University. 
In 1879 his Conference appointed him 
Principal of Rome Seminary, which position 
he held for two years. Returning to the pas- 
torate two great revivals attended his ministry, 
on the Cave Springs and La Grange charges, 
in connection with which two hundred and 
fifty persons united with the Church. In 
addition to this he rendered most valuable 
service as teacher in La Grange Seminary. 
He was appointed Presiding Elder of the 
Atlanta District by Bishop Mallalieu in 1885, 
and in this office he now serves. 

For many years he has been a pronounced 
leader in the temperance reformation, and to 
his able advocacy and untiring zeal are largely 
due the success of Prohibition in several coun- 
ties in Georgia. 

He graduated from the Gammon School of 
Theology in June, 1887, and in every sense 
has nobly earned the gratitude and esteem 
so widely and heartily accorded him. 



Rev. WILLIAM T. SMITH. 

The largest vote ever given by the Des 
Moines Conference to a representative to the 
General Conference was received by Rev. 
William T. Smith, who leads the delegation. 
He was born in Sangamon County, 111., on the 
21st of July, 1841, and was baptized in in- 
fancy by the sainted Rev. Peter Cartwright, 
who often preached at his father's house. He 
was converted at the age of twenty-two, and 
was received into the Church by Rev. Noble 
Frame, at Doylestown, Pa. He was licensed 
to preach, and was recommended to the Des 
Moines Conference by the Clarinda, Iowa, 
Quarterly Conference. His ministerial life 
has been notably successful, and for three 



years he served as Conference secretary. In 
1880 he was appointed Presiding Elder of 
the Atlantic District, serving two years, and 
in 1884 was placed in charge of the Council 
Bluffs District, being now in his fourth year. 

Mr. Smith is the author of Missionary Con- 
certs in the Sunday-School, published by the 
Western Book Concern. He it was who first 
suggested the idea of observing Easter Sab- 
bath as Children's Missionary Day. His Easter 
Sabbath Service has had a sale of 100,000 
copies, besides nearly 50,000 collectors' cards. 
The missionary offering of the Council Bluffs 
District this year will reach the handsome 
total of $5,000. 



Rev. JOHN B. MAXFIELD, D.D. 

Rev. John B. Maxfield, of the North Ne- 
braska Conference, was born near Syracuse, 
N. V., February 24, 1833. When he was seven 
years of age his parents removed to Knox 
County, O. He was converted at Wadd ell's 
meeting-house, near Brownville, O., in Febru- 
ary, 185(5, and soon after sent to Indiana, and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He then removed to Kansas, and entered the 
Nebraska Conference on trial in April, 1861, 
Bishop Morris presiding. In 1863 he was 
placed in charge of the Pawnee Indian manual 
labor school at Genoa, Neb., where he re- 
mained four years. From 1871 to 1875 he 
was in charge of Beatrice District, and on the 
expiration of his term he was appointed to 
the North Nebraska District, serving four 
years. He was then pastor of the First 
Church, Omaha, for two years, when he was 
placed in charge of Omaha District. At the 
conclusion of the term Bishop Andrews ap- 
pointed him to the Presidency of the Nebraska 
Central College, to which the trustees had 
unanimously elected him. Being attacked by 
paralysis, he was obliged to resign this po- 
sition, and took a trip to California. After 
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perated in health to return to his beloved 
work, whereupon he was appointed to the 
Norfolk District, where he is now performing 
most efficient service. 

This is the third time Mr. Maxfield has been 
chosen to serve in the chief council of the 
Church, having been a member of the General 
Conferences of 1872 and 1880. 



Rev. HENRY J. TALBOTT. 

Henry J. Talbott was born in Greencastle, 
Ind., January 8, 1847. His father, Rev. H. 
S. Talbott, was a member of the Indiana 
Conference at the time of his death, in 1881. 
When fifteen years of age he enlisted in the 
Fourth Indiana Cavalry Regiment and served 
three years, being mustered out at the close 
of the war. He spent two years at Rockport 
Collegiate Institute in preparation for college. 
He then shipped as a "hand" on a flat-boat 
and made a trip down the Ohio and Missis- 
sippi Rivers, suffering a shipwreck at Napo- 
leon, Ark. In February, 1870, he entered 
Indiana Asbury University, teaching his way 
through, and was graduated in June, 1873. 

Brother Talbott was converted in 1871, 
having joined the Church two years before. 
In 1872 he was licensed to preach, and was 
admitted into the Indiana Conference in the 
following year. In September, 1875, he was 
married to Miss Anna Irvine. During his 
pastorate of the Meridian Street Church, 
Indianapolis (1880-83), a debt of $28,000 
was cleared off. At the end of one year's 
service on his next charge, Centenary Church, 
New Albany, he was appointed Presiding 
Elder of the Rockport District. During his 
second year in this office more than two 
thousand souls were added to the churches 
on his district. Centenary Church now peti- 
tioned for his return to it. He received the 
appointment, and is at present its pastor. He 
was elected to the General Conference on the 
second ballot. 



EDWARD A. SNYDER, ESQ. 

Among the fearless foes of the liquor traffic, 
Edward A. Snyder must be accorded a promi- 
nent position. For nearly twenty years he 
has been connected w r ith and is now editor of 
The Cedar Falls Gazette, at Cedar Falls, la., a 
paper noted for its earnest support of pro- 
hibitory measures and true republican prin- 
ciples. He is a native of Columbia County, 
Pa., and is now in his fiftieth year. He at- 
tended school at Wyoming Seminary, Kings- 
ton, when Dr. Nelson was President, and at 
Williamsport when Bishop Bowman was at 
the head of that institution. He served three 
years in the Union army, nearly two years as 
a signal officer on the staffs of Generals Sher- 
man and Logan. 

Ever faithful to his Church duties, Mr. 
Snyder has been a class-leader for many years, 
and is always seen in his place at all the serv- 
ices at the Lord's house. He has suffered 
persecution at the hands of the allies of the 
rum power, but, far from being intimidated, 
his telling blows, by pen and by process of 
law, have in numerous cas s driven them to 
the wall and broken up their illegal trade. 
He is a brother of Rev. E. B. Snyder, D.D., 
late of the Philadelphia Conference, now in 
Florida, and his mother is a relative of Bishop 
Bowman. He is a lay delegate from Upper 
Iowa Conference. 



Rev. RUSSELL D. UTTER. 

Russell Duncan Utter is of the fourth gen- 
eration in lineal descent from William Utter, 
a native of Scotland, who immigrated to 
America in ante-Revolution days and had the 
honor of taking part in the patriot struggle 
for independence. On the maternal side, his 
ancestry came from the James River country, 
Virginia. His father was born in Orange 
County, N. Y; his mother, nee Gillespie, 
was a native of Kentucky. He was born at 



J. M. Buckley. 



George P. Hukill. 



J. O. Peck. 



W. S. Harrington. 




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Logansport, Ind., .February 15, 1836, and 
was brought up on a farm near Crawfords- 
ville, in bis native State. His parents, who 
were Methodists, taught him the way that is 
called Methodism. He united with the Church 
on profession of faith in 1853; was graduated 
from Thorntown Academy, Dr. C. N. Sims, 
principal, in 1859; taught school, continuing 
his studies ; entered the North-west Indiana 
Conference in 1862 ; commissioned by Gov- 
ernor Morton, he served a few months as army 
chaplain, till mustered out at the close of the 
Avar ; appointed professor in Valparaiso (Ind.), 
College in 1867 ; re-entered on pastoral work 
in 1872 ; one year agent for De Pauw Uni- 
versity; Presiding Elder one term; reserve 
delegate to the General Conference of 1880. 
He has been in the traveling connection con- 
tinuously since 1862, and has achieved an en- 
during success in the work of extension of 
God's kingdom anions men. 



Rev. WILLIAM H. WILDER. 

William Henry Wilder was born of Meth- 
odist parents near Greenfield, 111. His birth- 
place was the farm. Here was laid the 
foundation of that rugged physical and moral 
health upon which has been erected by a 
higher Christian education "a man of manly 
make and mold. 1 ' He Graduated at the Illi- 
nois Wesley an University in 1873 with the 
degree of A.B., and in the same year entered 
the Illinois Conference. In 1874 he married 
Miss Sally Smith, daughter of Rev. Frank 
Smith, a minister of the Central Illinois 
Conference. In 1884 the immemorial prece- 
dent of making presiding elders from old and 
long-experienced men was broken by Bishop 
Andrews appointing him Presiding Elder of 
Decatur District. Some of the wisest and 
best shook their heads in grave concern at 
this innovation, but the sequel shows most 
clearly that act was wise. In 1S87 he was 
elected to the General Conference on the first 

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ballot by a vote that lacked but three of 
placing him at the head of his delegation. 

His work both in the pastorate and superin- 
tend ency has been performed with singular 
conscientiousness and most painstaking care. 
He has brought to its performance an unusual 
fund of definite information, obtained in part 
by intimate acquaintance with our economy, 
and in part by a thorough knowledge of men 
and affairs. Add to these qualifications a 
warm devotion to his life-work and an apti- 
tude for business, together with a thorough 
consecration to God, and the fact of his uni- 
form success is explained. 



HON. MANOAH B. REESE. 

Manoah B. Reese, a lay delegate from the 
Nebraska Conference, was born in Macoupin 
County, 111., on the fifth day of September, 
1839. He resided with his parents on the 
farm until October, 1856, when they removed 
to Clarke County, la., where they started a 
farm, and where he resided until he attained 
his majority. In 1859 he received an injury 
which rendered him unable to labor on the 
farm, and which also caused his rejection when 
enlisted for service in the war. 

On January 1, 1862, he was married to 
Miss Carrie Burrows, formerly of Martinsville, 
Ind. In 1864 he began the study of law with 
Hon. James Rice, of Osceola, la., was admit- 
ted to the bar in 1865, and practiced law 
there until 1871, when he removed to Ne- 
braska. He was a member of the State Con- 
stitutional Convention in 1875, elected Dis- 
tinct Attorney for the 4th Judicial District in 
1876, and re-elected in 1878 and in 1880. In 
1883 he was elected as one of the Supreme 
Court judges of the State, and now holds that 
office. 

In 1886 he was elected Grand Master of 
Masons in Nebraska, and served in that capac- 
ity during the term of that office — one year. 
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REV. JAMES D. ROBERSON. 

James D. Roberson is a native of Loudon 
County, Tenn., and was Lorn February 27, 
1849. He gave his heart to God and united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church under 
the ministry of Rev. H. H. Burke, in August, 
1808. He was a student in the Loudon High 
School for five years, and for two years was 
engaged in teaching. Recognizing the call 
to the work of the ministry, he united with the 
Holston Conference in October, 1875, and la- 
bored three years in the pastorate in the 
western part of North Carolina, and two years 
in Eastern Tennessee. In 1881 he was trans- 
ferred to the Blue Ridge Conference, where 
he has filled the office of Presiding Elder 
two years on Greensborough District, four on 
Ashville District, and is now in his second 
year on Bakersville District. 

Mr. Roberson has served both Holston and 
Blue Ridge Conferences as secretary, and is 
at present one of the trustees of Leicester 
Seminary, Grant Memorial University, and 
Chattanooga University. His election to the 
General Conference is an honor fairly earned 
by virtue of his faithful service in his various 
fields of labor. 



Rev. BENJAMIN W. BAKER. 

Benjamin W. Baker was born in Hntton 
Township, Coles County, 111., on November 
25, 1841, and resided there until April, 1861, 
when he enlisted in Company E, 25th Regi- 
ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He served 
until September, 1864, and was twice wounded 
at Pearidge and twice at Chickamauga. He 
still carries a remembrancer in the form of a 
bullet in his left shoulder. He was graduated 
at the State Normal School at Normal, 111., 
in 1870, and taught as principal of the gram- 
mar school until 1874. 

Brother Baker began preaching as a supply 
in 1873, and in the fall of 1874 entered the 



Central Illinois Conference. While pastor at 
Fairbury in 1881 failing health compelled him 
to go West, and he was transferred to the Colo- 
rado Conference, and served the St. James 
Church at Denver for two years. He then 
returned to the Central Illinois Conference. 
He is now Presiding Elder of Streator Dis- 
trict, having received the appointment in 
October, 1885. His labors every-where have 
Leen crowned with marked success in all lines 
of Church work. 

On DecemLer 14, 1871, Brother Baker was 
married to Martha F. Henry. Five of their 
six children are living, and are all members 
of the Church on earth as they hope to be of 
the Church in heaven. 



Rev. JOHN D. PEIRCE. 

Rev. John D. Peirce, delegate from the 
Alabama Conference, is the son of Henry and 
Mary Peirce, and was born April 3, 1845, in 
Franklin County, Ind. His early education 
was acquired in the public schools. At six- 
teen years of age he entered the army, and 
served in it for upward of three years. In 
October, 1865, he with his father's family re- 
moved to Shelby ville, Ind. During a revival 
under the ministry of Rev. J. S. Tevis, D.D., 
he was converted in the following January,and 
united himself with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. With a view to devoting himself to 
the medical profession he took up the necessary 
studies, and was graduated from the Indiana 
College of Medicine and Surgery in February, 
1870. After spending five years in a remuner- 
ative practice he, under strong convictions of 
duty, gave up the profession and entered the 
ministry in connection with the South-east 
Indiana Conference. When eight years had 
been spent on charges within its bounds, owing 
to considerations of health he sought and 
obtained a transfer to the Alabama Confer- 
ence. Here his labors have been attended 
with much blessing, particularly during his 



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term at First Church, Birmingham. At its 
close he was appointed Presiding Elder of the 
Birmingham District, in which capacity his var- 
ied endowments and experience find fitting em- 
ploy. He was married February 13,. 1868, 
to Miss Mary B. Grant, of Christiana, Term. 
As a result of this union they have had four 
sons and three daughters, live of whom are 
now living. 



GUSTAVE A. SEEFELD, ESQ. 

Gustave A. Seefeld, lay delegate from the 
Chicago German Conference, was born in 
Germany, December 7, 1818. Early in 1851 
Le came with his parents to this country, and 
settled for a time in Milwaukee, Wis. The 
family removed some time after to a farm in 
the town of Wauwatosa, three miles from 
the city, and here his youth was passed. 
His parents were amongst the first German 
Methodists in that locality, and spared no 
pains in bestowing upon him the advantages 
of a godly training. His education was sup- 
plied by a public district school and Com- 
mercial Business College, and on its completion 
lie started his public career as clerk in a 
hardware store. Prior to this, however, and 
"while yet in his fifteenth year, he was con- 
verted and became a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. As opportunity offered 
he engaged in Christian work, and from time 
to time has filled office to the satisfaction of 
his brethren and advantage of the community. 
He is at present partner in a large firm 
which carries on an extensive trade in the 
supply of the materials employed in the con- 
struction of carriages and wagons. 



REV. FREDERICK KOPP. 

Rev. Frederick Kopp, so long identified 
with German work in our country, is a dele- 
gate from the ISorth German Conference, 
and has done much heroic work for the cause 



of Christ. Born in . Mergelstetten, Kingdom 
of Wiirtemberg, Germany, September 16, 
1827, and reared in the Lutheran Church, 
in 1816 lie emigrated to America and settled, 
in the backwoods of Wisconsin, near West- 
bend, in Washington County. In 1848 the 
Methodist itinerant preachers came, and the 
following year lie was happily converted. In 
1850 he was sent, under the Presiding Elder, 
to preach the Gospel to his countrymen. He 
has preached thirty-eight years; thirteen years 
in stations in the principal cities West. Eight- 
een years he has been in the office of Presid- 
ing Elder in three States. For four years he 
was President of the German-English College 
at Galena, 111. He has published various 
works, among them the German- American 
Pulpit. He was a member of the Gen- 
eral Conference in 1872, 1876, and 1880. 
He never had special opportunities to go to 
an English school, not even for one day, and 
is in the best and widest sense a self-made 
man. His forty years in the school of Christ 
have been to him a most wonderful education. 



Rev. HARRY H. GREEN. 

Rev. Harry H. Green, of the Upper Iowa 
Conference, was born March 13, 1839, at Els- 
ham, England, and when a child was brought 
by his parents to this country, they in 1851 
locating at Lyons, Clinton County, la. As 
a close and persistent student he acquired an 
excellent education. In 1861 he began the 
study of law, but on the breaking out of the 
war at that time he enlisted in the army 
as a private in Company I, 2d Iowa In- 
fantry. He was distinguished for his gal- 
lantry, especially at the battle of Corinth, and 
was promoted to Captain. He married Miss 
Mary M. Bennett in 1864. He was converted 
in 1865, and received local preacher's license 
the same year. Serving as supply under the 
Presiding Elder he was admitted into Upper 
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ordained deacon by Bishop Clark in 1S69, and 
elder by Bishop Ames in 1871. He has 
served important charges, and is now in his 
fourth year as Presiding Elder of Dubuque 
District. He accepted a nomination for mem- 
ber of the General Assembly, in order to re- 
instate the County of Bremer, which had 
given a majority against the prohibition amend- 
ment, and he won. His election o-ave the 
State, as the records show, to Prohibition. 
Being a member of the Committee on the Sup- 
pression of Intemperance, he has been credited 
with no small share in securing the passage 
of their prohibitory law. He did creditable 
work in aid of the yellow-fever sufferers, and 
has been abundant in good works. 



Rev. WILLIAM F. KING, D.D., LL.D. 

Rev. William Fletcher King, D.D., LL.D, 
President of Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, la, 
is a delegate from Upper Iowa Conference. 
He was born near Zanesville, O, December 
2<>, 1830. His parents, James J. and Mariam 
Cofftnan King, were intelligent and religious, 
and p< >ssessed marked force of character. Both 
were of old Virginia families and lived to the 
a^es of eiffhty-five and eighty-seven. Dr. King 
is the eldest of three brothers, all of whom are 
graduates of the Ohio Wesleyan University. 
One brother, Rev. Isaac F. King, is Presiding 
Elder in the Ohio Conference, and has been 
twice a member of the General Conference; 
another brother, John Wesley King, is a suc- 
cessful lawyer at Zanesville, O. On completion 
of his college course, in 1857, Dr. King was 
elected to a tutorship in Ohio Wesleyan 
University. His services in that relation 
were highly appreciated, and in 18(12 he 
resigned w ith view of spending some time in 
European travel and study. His plans were 
interrupted by his election to ihe Chair of 
Ancient Languages in Cornell College, Mt. 
Vernon, la. He has become a part of the 
educational history of the State. On the 



death of President Fellows, Professor Kino- 
took charge of the College as acting President, 
which duty he entered upon in the summer 
of 1863. In 1805 he was elected President 
of the College, and has remained in that 
relation to the present time. In length of 
service in the same institution he out-ranks all 
other Presidents of Methodist colleges in the 
United Slates. He was converted at ten years 
of age, and ever inculcates, by public appeal 
and persona] approach to all, the importance 
and necessity of religion. He adheres with 
persistency to the usages, institutions, and 
doctrines of the Church. lie was a member 
of the General Conference of 1876. In 1870 
he received his degree of D.D. from Illinois 
Wesleyan University, and in 1877 he received 
from his alma mater (Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity) the degree of LL.D. The latter degree 
was also given him by the State University 
of Iowa at the same time. 



JOSIAH A. STRICKLER, ESQ. 

Josiah A. Strickler, Esq, lay delegate from 
Pittsburg Conference, was born in Fayette 
County, Pa, October 25, 1840. He was 
raised a farmer and, like many others, received 
only a common school education. In 1856 he 
was converted, and united with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, under the pastorate of the 
Rev. Samuel Wakefield, D.D. With great 
diligence he has served in all the offices of 
the Church, and for a quarter of a century as 
a class-leader. He has held the office of Sun- 
day-school superintendent ten years. At the 
age of twenty he was married, and entered 
the, business world empty-handed, but blessed 
with a vigorous body and resolute will. Pie 
associated with him in all his business en- 
gagements the Man of Sorrows, which part- 
nership still exists. Much of his earnings 
have gone into the various enterprises of the 
Church. He entered the coke business in the 
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tinued in the same business since. Seeing the 
necessity of missionary work in the coke 
region, he enlisted himself in its behalf. He 
was on special committee on that work, and 
secured Rev. J. C. High as missionary. He 
still resides at Mt. Pleasant, Pa., where he 
has resided since 1879. His call to the 
General Conference is in appreciation of his 
deep interest in all that concerns Methodism, 
together with real Christian worth. 



Rev. WILLIAM F. WHITLOCK, D.D. 

Rev. William Francis Whitlock, D. D., a 
distinguished educator and prominent member 
of the North Ohio Conference, was born and 
reared near Dayton, O. His parents, Elias 
and Mary Johnson Whitlock, were anions; the 
first settlers of that part of the State. Their 
home was for some years a " preaching place," 
and they always had in readiness the proph- 
et's room. His father was an official member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more 
than forty years, and the membership of his 
mother covered a little more than sixty-seven 
years. He was graduated from the Ohio 
Wesleyan University in 1859. In his college 
training he shared the influences of the peer- 
less president, Dr. Edward (afterward Bishop) 
Thomson. One term before graduation he 
was appointed tutor of ancient languages, and 
in 1866 was elected Professor of Latin Lam 
guage and Literature, which position he still 
holds. For several years he gave special at- 
tention to instruction in English literature, 
and added the work of that department to 
his own. In 1877, when the Ohio Wesleyan 
Female College became a part of the Univer- 
sity, he was appointed Dean of the Ladies' 
College, and for six years added its supervis- 
ion to the regular duties of professorship. In 
1878 he received the degree of D.D. from 
Baldwin University. He united with the 
Central Ohio Conference in 1864, and was 
transferred to North Ohio Conference in 1878. 



He was a member of the General Conference 
of 1884, and at that time elected a member 
of the Book Committee to represent the fifth 
district, and has served in that relation during 
the last quadrennium. 



Prof. JACK B, MCCULLOCH. 

Jack B. McCulloeh was born of slave par- 
ents in the city of Clarksville, Red River 
County, Tex., June 12, 1852. He remained 
a slave until the surrender. He is a self- 
made man. Left an orphan when only eleven 
years of age, by application and natural 
abilities he was graduated at Prairie View, 
Tex., in 1881. He was elected to a position 
in Wiley University in 1882, and gave special 
satisfaction. He was re-elected, but resigned. 
He was a member of the General Conference 
of 1884. In September, 1887, he was elected 
Principal of the City Public Schools of Clarks- 
ville, Tenn., which position he holds at pres- 
ent with distinguished credit to his race and 
honor to himself. He is a staunch and active 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
His Church and home influences are eminently 
helpful. The church to which he belongs is 
the finest and best colored chmch in North 
Texas, and is the result of his generosity, per- 
severauce, and energetic influence. His elec- 
tion as lay delegate from the Texas Confer- 
ence asserts the esteem in which he is held. 



Rev. JOHN CHARLES ECKLES. 

Rev. John Charles Eckles, at present Pre- 
siding Elder in the Mississippi Conference, 
was born in Montgomery County, O., Febru- 
ary 10, 1845. His father was a minister of the 
United Brethren, and his mother an exem- 
plary Christian lady. He removed from Ohio 
to Iowa in 1853, and engaged in farm life. 
During the second year of the late war he en- 
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ment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and remained 
until the close of the war. He was engaged 
in several principal battles fought by the 
Western Army. After his return he entered 
school at Western College, and subsequently 
attended Iowa State University. He entered 
the ministry, and united with Des Moines 
Conference on trial in 1872. On August 28, 
1872, he was married to Miss Georgia A. 
Prosser, of Brooklyn, la. Various impor- 
tant charges were filled by him in the Confer- 
ence, and he also acted as Statistical Secretary. 
In September, 1883, he was transferred by 
Bishop Simpson to the Mississippi Conference, 
and was appointed by Bishop Hurst as Pre- 
siding Elder of Holly Springs District. In 
1887 he was Presiding Elder of Aberdeen 
District. He is a vigorous man, and gives 
promise of added years of profitable service 
to the Church. He has suffered the fires of 
persecution, but has stood firm, and is re- 
warded by distinguished honors. 



Rev. JOHN B. GREEN. 

Rev. John B. Green, who is so intimately 
connected with the religious and educational 
interests of Southern California Conference, 
was born in Madison, Iud., December 29, 
1849. In March, 1866, lie was converted un- 
der the ministry of Rev. John G. Chaffee, and 
united with the church to which his parents 
and grandparents belonged — old Wesley 
Chapel, Madison, Ind. After a partial col- 
legiate course in Moore's Hill College, he 
joined the South-eastern Indiana Conference 
on trial, in September, 1871. He labored 
therein till September, 1875, when he married 
and was transferred to California Conference, 
by the division of which, a few days later, 
he became one of the original members of 
the Southern California Conference. He has 
been a laborious and enthusiastic participant 
in the struggles and triumphs of this new Con- 
ference. He has acted as Statistical Secretary 



for four years, and also Secretary four years 
more. As Presiding Elder he served a term, 
and has acted for several years as Secretary of 
the Board of Directors of the University of 
Southern California. His incessant labors 
have been of great value, and in the possession 
of robust health he gives promise of many 
more years of labor for God and the Church. 



SYLVESTER J. HILL, M.D. 

Sylvester J. Hill, M.D., was born in 1846 
at Caton, Steuben County, N. Y. His parents 
were well-to-do farmers, and still remain 
devout members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in the town where he was born. 
After leaving the district school and a } r ear 
in the Academy at Corning, N. Y., he enlisted 
in the army at the age of eighteen, reaching 
his regiment (141st N. Y.) just in time to 
" march to the sea. 11 He was converted and 
joined the Church in 1866. He was a student 
in East Genesee Conference Seminary in 1868- 
69, and was graduated from the Homeopathic 
Hospital College of Cleveland, O., in 1872, 
and entered upon the practice of medicine, 
taking as a life partner Miss Anna Sowles, 
M.D., a graduate of the same college. In 
1874 he went West, settling in Iowa. He 
removed to Fargo, Dak., in 1878, at which 
time he abandoned the practice of medicine 
and gave his entire time and attention to 
dentistry. He has for three years been 
President of the Territorial Board of Dental 
Examiners, and is also President of the Board 
of Education of the city of Fargo. He has 
been recording steward for twelve years, 
and his pastor says of him, "As an official 
member he is prompt, careful, and energetic ; 
loyal to the Church, constant in attendance 
upon all its services, progressive in spirit, 
and cautious in action. 11 He deserves the 
honor conferred upon him by election as 
lay delegate of the North Dakota Confer- 
ence. 



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REV. DAVID C. PLANNETTE. 

Rev. David C. Plannette stands at the head 
of the North Dakota Conference delegation, 
having received all but three of the votes of 
his Conference. He was born in Allegheny 
City, Pa., in 1850. He united with Union 
Church, Allegheny, 1867, and was graduated 
from the United Presbyterian College in New 
Wilmington, Pa. He received license to 
preach in 1872, and in September of the same 
year he entered the Erie Conference at 
Akron, O. For eleven years his activities 
were devoted to interests in that Conference, 
and were efficient in securing the erection of 
several churches and paying church debts. 
In 1883 he asked, for the specific purpose of 
taking; charge of the church at Bismarck, 
Dak., a supernumerary relation. By his en- 
ergy the church, which was unfinished, soon 
was completed. Success attended his labors 
here, and the people were solicitous for his 
return, but, unexpectedly, the Bishop ap- 
pointed him Presiding Elder of a new district. 
With, the enthusiasm which he possesses he 
entered upon his arduous work, and results 
of marvelous character have been achieved. 
Church building, increase in pastors' support 
and general benevolences have been notable. 
He possesses sterling qualities, and great con- 
fidence is reposed in him. 



Rev. THOMPSON F. HILDRETH. 

Rev. Thompson Foster Hildreth, second 
on the list of delegates from the North Ohio 
Conference, was born in Ulysses, Tompkins 
County, N. Y., November 29, 1826. He is 
of Methodist parentage. His parents settled 
in northern Ohio when he was seven years 
old. At eleven he was converted, but did 
not unite with the Church until at the age 
of sixteen. Admitted on trial in North Ohio 
Conference in 1851, he was ordained deacon 
by Bishop Morris in 1853, and elder by 



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Bishop Ames in 1855. In 1865 he was 
transferred to the New York Conference. 
His health failed after three years, and he 
was transferred back to his former Confer- 
ence. He served three years at Norwalk, O., 
and was then transferred to the Michigan 
Conference, filling several terms at important 
charges, and in 1882 was again transferred to 
North Ohio Conference. He supplied a post 
of responsibility in East Ohio Conference at 
Cleveland; then a second term at Norwalk; 
is now pastor of Lorain Street Church, Cleve- 
land. He received the degree of D.D. from 
Ohio Wesleyan University in June, 1887. 
He is possessed of rare qualifications by 
nature for public speaking, and, with decided 
personal magnetism, is able to move at will 
the audiences he addresses. 



REV. DAVID G. LE SOURD. 

Rev. David G. Le Sourd is a native of 
Clinton County, Ind., where he was born 
October 4, 1841. His early life was given 
to hard labor on a farm. He enlisted in 1862 
in the army, and served to the close of the 
war. He was in many battles, served all 
through the Atlanta Campaign, marched with 
Sherman to the sea, and through the Carolinas 
to Washington. Having completed a college 
course, he in 1870 joined the North-west 
Indiana Conference, where he labored with 
fidelity and great success for eleven years. 
In 1881 he was transferred to the Oregon 
Conference and stationed at Olympia, W. T. 
After two years' service there, Bishop 
Warren appointed him to the Presiding 
Eldership by assigning him to Puget Sound 
District, which embraced nearly all of 
western Washington Territory. The dis- 
trict became the next year the Puget Sound 
Conference, embracing all of Washington 
west of Cascade Mountains. Of the two 
districts formed, the Seattle District was given 
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work, which was decidedly pioneer work. 
The First Church, Tacoma, is now his appoint- 
ment. His interest in the educational work 
of the Conference has been of very marked 
character, and he served on the Commission 
appointed to locate the Puget Sound Uni- 
versity. 

HENRY W. KNIGHT, ESQ. 

Henry W. Knight was born in 1847. When 
a mere child lie lost both parents, and began 
the battle of life alone. At the outbreak of 
the Civil War he was learning the trade of a 
printer in the office of the Union and Journal, 
Biddeford, Me., and in November, 1862, not 
yet sixteen, he enlisted in the 7th Maine Regi- 
merit of Volunteers, and served until the end 
of the war, being three times wounded. He 
was on duty at the War Department in Wash- 
ington on the night of the assassination of 
President Lincoln, and participated in the 
stirring scenes of that eventful night. On 
leaving the army he embarked in business in 
Philadelphia, and on January 21, L866, joined 
the Nineteenth Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church. lie removed to Cincinnati, ()., in 
1869, and shortly thereafter entered the Meth- 
odist Book Concern. When Mr. John M. 
Phillips was elected to the agency of the New 
York Book Concern he conceived the idea of 
a subscription hook department, and Mr. 
Knight was engaged to inaugurate the same 
in 1875. The department has grown wonder- 
fully under his management. More than half 
a million books have been disposed of in that 
department alone. Mr. Knight is an active 
and loyal Methodist. He is President of the 
Board of Trustees of the Sumner Avenue 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He was for a year Commander of the famous 
U. S. Grant Post, G. A. P., Brooklyn, and 
was one of the Guard of Honor at the funeral 
of General Grant. He was first reserve del- 
egate from the New York East Conference 
to the General Conference of 1884 and is a 
delegate to the present. 



HENRY H. HEINS, ESQ. 

Henry H. Heius was born May 12, 1833, 
in Hadsta, Province of Hanover, Germany, 
and reared under the influence of the Lutheran 
Church. In the fall of 1851 he came to this 
country with his parents and settled in 
Wapello, la. Here he came under special 
religious influences, and by the power of 
Gospel truth was won to Christ. He was 
converted in April, 1852, and joined the 
German Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon 
thereafter he was chosen class-leader, and 
with a deep sense of his unworthiness was 
by this led to leave Iowa for Minnesota in 
the fall of 1855. Here he settled on a farm 
near Jordan, Scott County. As he gave the 
minister his church letter he found that he 
was alone, as he was the only member. Soon 
neighbors joined, and now they have a large 
membership. He fled from Iowa on account 
of work, but here he also was required to 
work. He was chosen to various official 
positions in the Church, and August 3, 1867, 
was given license to preach ; since which time 
he has with humility and diligence served 
God in that capacity. His record is one of 
unceasing diligence and untiring zeal. He is 
the lay delegate from the North German 
Conference. 



Rev. CHARLES H. PAYNE, D.D., LL.D. 

Rev. Charles II. Payne, D.D., LL.D., dele- 
gate from the Cincinnati Conference, is a 
native of Taunton, Mass., where he was born 
October 24, 1830. When seventeen years 
of age he was converted and united with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. His edu- 
cational equipment was thorough, having been 
furnished chiefly by East Greenwich Academy, 
R. I., and Wesleyan University, Middletown, 
Conn., from the latter of which he was gradu- 
ated in 1856. He also studied for a consider- 
able time in the Biblical Institute, Concord, 
N. H., before completing his college course. 
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place March 24, 1857, and the same year 
marked his entrance to the itinerant ranks in 
the Providence Conference. His charges have 
been as follows : Sandwich, East Bridge water, 
Fall River; Broadway, Providence ; St. John's, 
Brooklyn, which he built at a cost of 
$200,000; Arch Street, Philadelphia, also 
erected under his pastorate at a cost of 
$260,000 ; Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, 
where $75,000 was raised in three years, 
mostly for outside benevolent purposes, and 
St. Paul's, Cincinnati. 

In all these churches he has had revivals, 
doubling the membership in most cases. He 
was elected to the Presidency of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, and inaugurated President in 
June, 1876. In this position he has rendered 
noble and successful service. His Conference 
has four times elected himits delegate ; namely, 
to two previous General Conferences, and to 
the London Ecumenical Conference in 1881. 
Dr. Payne has traveled extensively in Europe 
and the East, and is well known in Great 
Britain and this country as the author of 
Guides and Guards in Character Building, 
now in its seventh edition, and of numerous 
other volumes. 



Rev. WILLIAM R. HALSTEAD. 

Rev. "William R, Halstead, A.M., delegate 
from Indiana Conference, was born nearTerre 
Haute, Ind., March 19, 1848. He was brought 
up on a farm, and acquired familiarity with its 
drawbacks and advantages respectively. From 
early life he evinced a thirst for scholarship, 
to gratify which he entered Auburn Uni- 
versity. His proficiency was attested by the 
fact that he was graduated in 1871 with the 
first honors of his department. 

After engaging for a year in teaching he 
entered the Indiana Conference, within the 
bound" of which he has held the following ap- 
pointments : Bloomington Circuit, Worthing- 
ton, Spencer, Mitchell ; Presidency of De Pauw 

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College; California Street, Indianapolis; Lo- 
cust Street, Greencastle. He is at present 
Presiding Elder of the Indianapolis District, 
and in every sphere, as pastor, preacher, 
teacher, and administrator, has served the 
Church with noteworthy diligence and effi- 
ciency. He is one of the trustees of De 
Pauw University, and author of Future Re- 
ligious Policy of America, a volume which is 
well known within and beyond our own de- 
nomination. 



SAMUEL 0. SWACKHAMER, ESQ. 

Samuel O. Swackhamer, lay delegate of the 
IdahoConference,is a native of Warren County, 
N. J. He was born July 25, 1837. At the 
early age of thirteen he emigrated westward, 
settling in Stark County, 111. From here he 
moved to Colorado in 1860, and was married 
to Miss Clara E. Dodge, of Omaha, Neb., 
two years subsequently. His union with the 
Church took place at Mount Vernon, Col., 
in the winter of 1863, and since then he has 
proved himself a willing and valuable worker 
in her ranks. After his removal to Oregon 
in 1863 he became identified with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church at La Grande. His 
activity and usefulness have been but aug- 
mented by the change in the sphere of opera- 
tions. In his public capacity he fills responsible 
positions, among which may be noted that of 
Sheriff" of Union County for two terms and 
Register of the United States Land Office for 
the La Grande District, to the latter of which 
he was appointed by President Arthur in 
1885. Probity, thoroughness, and Christian 
charity have been exemplified in his career. 



Rev. JOHN E. CHAMPLIN. 

Rev. John E. Champlin, delegate from 
North Carolina Conference, was born in 
Davidson County, in that State, March 4, 
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alleviated by a good training and the heritage 
of an unyielding determination. lie was con- 
verted in 1865, and for convenience' sake joined 
the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Recognizing his gifts and usefulness, he was 
soon licensed to preach, and in 1869 entered 
the Conference on trial. He remained in 
this branch of the Chin ch for two years, and 
then transferred to the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, entering its North Carolina Confer- 
ence. Since that time he has served on 
the following charges: South Randolph and 
Guilford, Lexington, Davidson, South Ca- 
tawba, Greensborough, Lumberton, and. Win- 
ston. In all of these he has had his full share of 
arduous toil, cheered in many places by a rich 
harvest. As Presiding Elder of the Raleigh 
and Wilmington Districts his labors have 
been abundant, -and eminently helpful to all 
the interests of the churches under his care. 
Feeling that a career so hampered with early 
drawbacks and yet so crowned with ultimate 
success deserved well of the Church he has 
served, his brethren by a gratifying vote 
elected him their representative to the present 
assembly. 



REV. WILLIAM KOENEKE. 

Rev. William Koeneke, who leads the del- 
egation from St. Louis German Conference, 
was born in Marietta, O., March, 13, 1838. 
His father was one of the early missionaries 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church among 
the Germans in this country. He received 
his education in private and public schools, 
as the revolutions of the itinerancy permitted, 
and spent a considerable time in the English 
and German College of Quincy, 111. (now 
Chaddock College). 

In the fall of 1857 he entered the ministry 
in the Southern Illinois Conference, serving 
on several of its charges until the formation 
of the German Conferences in 1864. His sub- 
sequent fields of labor lay within the bounds 
of the South-western German Conference, 



which body he represented in the General 
Conferences of 1872 and 1876. His sound 
judgment and keen business ability proved of 
immense advantage on the Book Committee, 
of which he was a member from 1876-80. 
Since the year 1878 he has been a member of 
the St. Louis German Conference, where his 
pastoral labors have been crowned with cheer- 
ing tokens of divine approval. 

He has had the rare experience of filling 
the secretaryship of his Conference for twenty- 
three years continuously. 



Rev. JOSHUA E. WILSON. 

Rev. Joshua E. Wilson, delegate from the 
South Carolina Conference, was born in the 
city of Charleston, S. C, October 5, 1844. 
His early education was received in the same 
city, where he attended school for ten years. 
At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed 
to the blacksmith and machinist trade, in 
which he spent three years aft-r the expira- 
tion of apprenticeship. He was converted at 
a camp-meeting held near Charleston, May 3, 
1867, and at once united himself with the 
Church. After engaging in school-teaching for 
a couple of years, he entered the South Caro- 
lina Conference on trial in 1870, and has since 
filled many of its principal appointments. He 
has served as Presiding Elder for a full term 
on each of two districts, greatly to the advan- 
tage of the Church and satisfaction of his 
brethren. As a church builder he has had 
a large measure of success, having built four 
fine new edifices and improved many others 
through his ministry. He was elected by the 
popular vote to the position of Superintendent 
of Public Schools in his county for four terms 
of two years each. He was also a member of 
two previous General Conferences, and of the 
Centennial Conference at Baltimore. At pres- 
ent he is pastor of the largest Methodist 
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nary, in Charleston, whose membership stands 
at 1,975. 

Mr. Wilson has thus rendered signal service 
in various departments of our work, attracting 
attention and admiration from multitudes who 
love to see the prosperity of our Zion. 



WILLIAM MICHELL, ESQ. 

William Michell, lay delegate from Co- 
lumbia River Conference, is of English parent- 
age, having been born in Cornwall, England, 
August 29, 1838. His family came to Amer- 
ica in 1847, and united with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. His conversion, however, 
did not take place until five years later, when 
he was on a visit to his English home ; then, 
under the mighty influence of Cornish Meth- 
odism, he was led into "the way of peace." 
He received license to preach when eighteen 
years old, was ordained deacon by Bishop 
Peck, August, 1875, and elder by Bishop 
Fowler, September, 1884. As an acceptable 
preacher and enthusiastic temperance worker 
lie especially excels, but his activities are not 
confined within these limits. His sympathy 
and aid keep steady pace with his means and 
opportunities. Since 1863 his home has been 
in the Dalles, Oregon, where he figures promi- 
nently in business circles as proprietor of 
large and thriving concerns. 

An excellent wife and four dutiful daughters 
constitute the light of his home, and aid him 
largely in his life of practical philanthropy. 



Rev. EDGAR 0. MdNTIRE. 

Rev. Edgar O. Mclntire, delegate from 
Austin Conference, had the two-fold advan- 
tage of an ancestry who were devoted Meth- 
odists, and purely Scotch in every lineament, 
being from the heart of the Highlands. His 
parents emigrated to this country and settled 
in Erie County, Pa., where he was born Feb- 



ruary 22, 1842. He pursued his educational 
studies in the academy of his native county 
until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he 
entered the army as a private in the 15th New 
York Cavalry. After leaving military serv- 
ice he completed his course, and was gradu- 
ated from Scio College, Ohio. He united 
with the North Ohio Conference in the fall of 
1870, and served several of its charges to the 
real upbuilding of the Church until 1882, 
when he was transferred to the Austin Con- 
ference and stationed at Galveston, Tex. 
His labors here have been varied, earnest, 
and successful. To his efforts are due the 
organization of the Scandinavian Church and 
erection of the present Broadway Methodist 
Episcopal Church in that city. At the end 
of the three-years' term he was appointed 
pastor of the Central Church, Austin, and also 
Presiding Elder of the Austin District. He 
yet holds this position, in which he has 
already contributed largely to the strength- 
ening and extension of our work over a wide 
area and in a somewhat strategic point. 



FRITZ A. BLUMBERG, ESQ. 

Fritz A. Blumberg, lay delegate from 
the Southern German Conference, hails origi- 
nally from the Fatherland, having been born 
in Prussia, December 20, 1833. He was fa- 
vored with careful home training in early life, 
and took advantage of the means of educa- 
tion then within reach. Desirous to win his 
way upward he emigrated to this country in 
1845, and settled in Texas at a time when that 
territory was almost uninhabited. He found, 
however, ample room for the exercise of his 
chosen occupation of farming, from which, 
by dint of industry, he managed to extract a 
livelihood for himself, his partner, and twelve 
children. Having joined the Church in 1855, 
before his marriage, he was the better pre- 
pared to train his family for the life which is 
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much-needed influence over other settlers in 
a region comparatively destitute of spiritual 
privileges. Amongst other gracious fruits of 
his labors he has the joy of seeing his fifth 
son prepare to enter the ministry. Mr. Blurn- 
berg was elected delegate to the General Con- 
ferences of 1876 and 1880. 



DIEDRICH B. MEYER, ESQ. 

Diedrich B. Meyer, lay delegate from 
the Central German Conference, was born 
December 11, 1843, in the city of Bremen, 
Germany. In early youth he became ac- 
quainted with Methodism through the labors 
of Drs. Jacoby, Doering, and Nippert, first 
missionaries in his native city. In 1859 he 
emigrated to the United States and made Cin- 
cinnati his home, where he united with the 
Buckeye Street German Methodist Episcopal 
Church, of which he is a member now and 
has been almost ever since. His work in 
the Church has been earnest and varied. 
From time to time he has held the various of- 
fices open to laymen, and in each case manifest 
tokens of approval have attended the dis- 
charge of his duties. All through his resi- 
dence in Cincinnati he has actively interested 
himself in every movement tending toward 
the extension of Methodism and the highest 
well-being of his fellow-citizens. In 1879 he 
was ordained local deacon, and in this capacity 
he gleans largely in the great harvest field. 



REV. WASHINGTON GARDNER. 

Rev. Washington Gardner, A. M., delegate 
from the Michigan Conference, has the honor 
of ranking amongst the junior members of the 
present assembly, having been born in Ohio 
in 1845. At sixteen he enlisted in the 65th 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in 
all the campaigns of the war till May, 1864, 
when he was severely wounded. Resolved on 



securing the benefit of a liberal education, he 
entered Ohio Wesleyan University, from 
which he received his bachelor degree in 
1870. From this he entered the Boston School 
of Theology, but through failing health was 
compelled to relinquish it in his second year. 
In 1875 he took up the study of law in 
Albany Law School, aud was graduated vale- 
dictorian of his class the following year. 
After a short residence as attorney at Grand 
Rapids, he entered the Michigan Conference 
in 1877. From this body he was elected on 
the first ballot, and is the only delegate from 
the State who has held no position other than 
pastor. As President of the Michigan State 
Sunday-school Association his influence is felt 
over a wide area. Asa speaker he is in great 
demand on Grand Army occasions, at conven- 
tions, and Conferences. He was recently elect- 
ed President of the Michigan Grand Army 
of the Republic. His paper before the Union 
Bible Conference, Philadelphia, on the " Inspi- 
ration of the Bible," and his address at New- 
ark Revival Conference were eloquent and 
masterly. 



REV. WILLIAM H. HICKMAN. 

Rev. William Howard Hickman, M.A., 
delegate from the North-west Indiana Confer- 
ence, came of the Hickman family near Abing- 
don, Va., though he was born at Crab Orchard 
Springs, Ky., October 15, 1844. His family 
were slave-holders. On the death of his par- 
ents in 1845 he was taken charge of by his 
oldest brother, who despised the institution of 
slavery, and in 1849 conveyed by him to 
Crawfordsville, Ind., where he grew up. In 
1861 he enlisted in the Federal Army and 
served in nearly all the battles of the " Cum- 
berland Army." He was in Sherman's march 
to the sea — a member of the famous "Kilpat- 
rick Cavalry." He shared the fortunes of war, 
b j ing wounded once, a prisoner twice, and 
was in Libby Prison when Richmond fell. 
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cine, but on his conversion and call to the 
ministry relinquished this and entered In- 
diana Asbury University, where he took 
a six-years' classical course, being graduated 
in 1873. He also spent some time in Garrett 
Biblical Institute and Boston School of Ora- 
tory. He joined the North-west Indiana Con- 
ference September, 1873, and was stationed at 
Chauncey Church, La Fayette. In 1875 he 
married Miss E. H. Howgham, daughter of 
Professor J. S. Howgham, LL.D. He has 
served the following charges : Attica, Delphi, 
Frankfort; First Chinch, South Bend, and 
is now in his second year Presiding Elder of 
Crawfordsville District. 



JEROME B. JONES, ESQ. 

Jerome B. Jones, lay delegate from West 
Wisconsin Conference, is a resident of Hud- 
son, St. Croix County, where he wields large 
influence, and enjoys a high reputation as a 
successful man of business and a consistent 
Christian. He w 7 as born in Delphi, Carroll 
County, Ind., August 10, 1841, but removed 
to Wisconsin at five years of age. Here he 
grew up to manhood under circumstances call- 
ing for the fullest measure of industry and 
effort. In 1862 he married Miss Maria L. 
Egbert, daughter of Rev. William Egbert, of 
New York. Two years from that event he 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and has since served in some official capacity, 
chiefly as trustee, steward, and class-leader. 
In these capacities his labors have been much 
blessed in his own community. His ability 
and integrity have brought him to the front 
in wider circles. He was twice elected by his 
county to the positions of treasurer and sher- 
iff, and for the last thirteen years has been 
district superintendent of a large harvesting 
machine company. As an earnest worker 
and liberal supporter our Church has in him 
a warm and faithful friend. 



LAWRENCE E. CHESTNUT, ESQ. 

Lawrence E. Chestnut, lay delegate from 
the Florida Conference, was born in Camden, 
S. C, June 16, 1853. When but seven years 
of age he removed to Florida, and received his 
early education in the Union Academy, 
Gainesville. As teacher in public schools, as 
clerk in the United States Land Office, and 
in his present position as proprietor of a store 
in Gainesville, he has earned for himself a 
name better than great riches. He was con- 
verted in early life, and, uniting with the 
Church, unsparingly exerted himself to do 
good. For twelve years he has filled the of- 
fice of superintendent of Mount Pleasant 
Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school, which 
has notably prospered under his care. As 
local preacher for the past four years, he has 
cheerfully devoted his best eneigies to pro- 
mote the glory of God and the best welfare 
of humanity. 



REV. DANIEL DORCHESTER, D.D. 

Rev. Daniel Dorchester, D.D., delegate 
from New England Conference, has achieved 
such a national reputation that it is difficult 
to do justice to his career within these limits. 
He was born at Duxbury, Mass., March 11, 
1827. His conversion and union with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church took place in his 
eighth year. Facilities for a liberal educa- 
tion were placed within his reach and em- 
braced with noble purpose and untiring ap- 
plication. He studied at the Academy in 
Norwich, Conn., and still more thoroughly at 
Wesle}^an University, Middletown, Conn., 
from the latter of which he received the de- 
grees of MA. and D.D. He joined the Provi- 
dence Conference in 1847, and after serving 
several of its charges was transferred to New 
England Conference in 1858. Since then he 
has been stationed at Worcester, Lowell, 
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Roslindale, Boston, his present charge. He 
has also filled the office of Presiding Elder for 
twelve years on the Worcester, Lynn, and 
North Boston Districts. Through his able 
ministrations and careful administration the 
churches have had fresh and marked pros- 
perity along the pathway thus indicated. 
While concentrating his energy in the fulfill- 
ment of his ministry, his conspicuous abilities 
have singled him out for other responsible 
service in the cause of humanity. The fol- 
lowing are a few of the additional offices thus 
filled : President of the National League for 
the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic ; Chair- 
man of the Massachusetts Committee on Con- 
stitutional Prohibition ; Commissioner of Idi- 
ocy in Connecticut 1854 and 1855. He Avas 
also elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 
185-1, and to the Massachusetts House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1882. The work done along 
these lines has been prolific of good. He is 
author of Concessions of Liberalists to Or- 
thodoxy, Problem of Religious Progress, 
Liquor Problem in all Ages, Christianity 
in the United States, volumes which are so 
full of the products of patient research and 
philosophic treatment as to be well worthy 
the work of a whole life-time. 



HORACE HITCHCOCK, ESQ. 

Horace Hitchcock, who leads the lay dele- 
gation from Detroit Conference, would readily 
be singled out as a representative Methodist 
layman. His career commenced in Orange- 
ville, Pa., November 28, 1836. He is the son 
of a prominent Methodist minister of the Erie 
Conference. The best part of his early edu- 
cation was received in Gouverneur (N.Y.) Wes- 
leyan Seminary. He taught school for four 
years after leaving this institution, and had 
taken charge of a school in Cedar Falls, la., 
when the great revival of 1857 broke out. 
With his conversion at this period the turn- 
ing point of his life was reached. He at once 



started to work. The field to which his con- 
science and affinities thus early impelled him 
was that in which he has since attained such 
signal success, namely, the Sunday-school. For 
twenty-six years he has enthusiastically done 
the work of a superintendent. From Iowa he 
removed to Michigan in 1863, and located at 
Detroit, his present residence, in 1868. He 
has been President of the Detroit Methodist 
Episcopal Church and Sunday-school Alliance 
for seven years; trustee of Albion College for 
eight years, and Treasurer and Director of the 
Methodist Publishing Company of Detroit 
for a lengthened period. Through every 
vicissitude he has worn the white flower of a 
blameless life, and with the flight of years the 
momentum and purity of his influence but in- 
crease. 



REV. JOHN F. SPENCE, D.D. 

John Fletcher Spence was born in Ohio 
in 1828, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan 
University in 1853. In the same year he 
joined the Cincinnati Conference, where he 
labored with marked success and acceptability 
until 1862, when he was appointed a Chaplain 
in the United States Army. Here he served 
over three years, and in 1865 was transferred 
to the Holston Conference, with which he has 
since been connected. Through his earnest 
exertions both the First and Second Meth- 
odist Episcopal Churches of Knoxville were 
organized and church edifices elected. In the 
same year in which he was transferred to the 
Southern field, 1865, he was elected President 
of the Knoxville Female College. Under his 
administration the school became the foremost 
institution of its class in Eastern Tennessee. 
In 1868 he resigned, and was appointed Pre- 
siding Elder of the Knoxville District, on 
which he served four years. In 1875 he was 
elected President of East Tennessee Wesleyan 
University. When Dr. Spence was placed 
in charge the property was in imminent dan- 
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local patronage remained. He immediately 
directed his efforts toward the liquidation of 
the debt, and in less than two years every 
dollar was settled and about one thousand dol- 
lars Avas expended in repairs on the property. 

After the death of General Grant the name 
of the institution was changed to Grant Me- 
morial University, and it is now the largest 
school for whites in the South. Over three 
hundred students are at present in attendance, 
and since 1875 more than one hundred min- 
isters and one thousand teachers have been 
sent out from its halls. 

In 1877 Dr. Spence received the degree of 
D.D. from Mount Union ColWe, O. He 
was alternate delegate to the General Confer- 
ence of 1876, and was a member of the Gen- 
eral Conferences of 1880 and 1884. As a 
public speaker, whether in the pulpit or 
upon the platform, he is earnest and logical, 
powerful and convincing. 



WILLIAM S. HARRINGTON, D.D. 

William Shaw Harrington was born No- 
vember 6, 1834, in South New Berlin, N. Y.; 
was converted and joined the Church in 1842, 
and removed with his parents to Sycamore, 
111., in 1843. In 1856 he was married to 
Elizabeth Clark. Four children, all daughters, 
have been born to them. 

Mr. Harrington began teaching school when 
sixteen years of age, and continued in that 
occupation for several years. He was licensed 
to exhort in April, 1859, and was a local 
preacher in July of the same year. He was 
graduated from the Garrett Biblical Institute 
in 1862 ; joined the Rock River Conference 
the same year, was ordained deacon by Bishop 
Scott in 1863, and elder by Bishop Thomson 
in 1865. In 1881 he was transferred by 
Bishop Harris to the Oregon Conference. The 
Willamette University conferred upon him in 
1884 the degree of D.D. His pastorates 
have been Crystal Lake, Kaneville, Sycamore, 



Belvidere,and Winnebago Street, Rockford, in 
Rock River Conference, and Seattle, W. T. 
and Salem, Ore., in the Oregon Conference. 
He has served the following districts as Pre- 
siding Elder : Mendota and Dixon in Illinois 
and Portland in Oregon. He is just closing 
his twelfth year in that office. He was a 
member of the General Conference of 1872, 
and reserve delegate in 1876. He represents 
the Oregon Conference in the General Con- 
ference of 1888. 



REV. ABRAHAM EADS. 

Abraham Eads was born November 8, 
1829, in Cole County, Mo., in which State he 
lived until the spring of 1844, when, with his 
father's family, he emigrated to Oregon, cross- 
ing the continent with ox-teams, and settled 
in the Willamette Valley- in the autumn of 
that year. Being one of thirteen children in 
a pioneer country, his opportunities for early 
education were so limited that he took his 
first lessons in writing and arithmetic when 
twenty-one years of age. Four years later 
he was converted. His intellectual ambition 
seemed born with his spiritual life. Feeling 
called to preach he entered the Willamette 
University in 1858, in which he remained 
under the instruction of President F. S. Hoyt, 
D.D., and President T. M. Gatch till 1862. 
He joined the now Columbia River Confer- 
ence in 1874, under the Presiding Eldership 
of Rev. H. K. Hines, D.D., and served Union, 
La Grande, Center ville, and Milton charges. 
In 1884 his alma mater, the Willamette Uni- 
versity, conferred upon him the degree of 
A.M., and the same year Bishop Fowler 
transferred him to the Idaho Conference and 
appointed him to the Boise City District, the 
leading district of the Conference. The tend- 
encies of his mind are toward scientific 
studies, especially geology and astronomy, 
as opportunity permits, amid the duties of an 
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REV. WILBUR I. COGSHALL. 

Wilbur I. Cogshall is a native of Michigan, 
and was born February 13, 1850. He came 
of sturdy Methodist ancestry, his grandfather 
being a Methodist local preacher, and his fa- 
ther for many years a leading member of the 
Michigan Conference, and a delegate to the 
General Conferences of 1868 and 1872. Mr. 
Cogshall was educated at Albion and Kala- 
mazoo Colleges, spending three years at the 
former and one year at the latter. His re- 
ligious experience dates from 1865, when that 
"peace which passeth all understanding" en- 
tered his heart. During the first seven months 
of his ministry he served as a supply under 
the Presiding Elder, receiving $175. In 1871 
he was admitted on trial into the Michigan 
Conference, with which he is still identified. 
He was assistant secretary of the Confer- 
ence from 1874 to 1882, and secretary from 
the latter date until 1887. 

Mr. Cogshall possesses unlimited capacity 
for work. During the campaign for the con- 
stitutional prohibitory amendment he fre- 
quently made ten public addresses per week. 
He is now the Presiding Elder on a district 
which was served by his father thirty years 
ago. He is untiring in his labors, and his 
faithful assistance in revival work is highly 
valued by the preachers and churches on his 
district, many rich spiritual harvests being 
gathered as fruit of his toils. 



WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, ESQ. 

Among the prominent laymen of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church on the Pacific Coast 
may be named most justly William H. John- 
son, one of the lay delegates of the Southern 
California Conference. He is now in his 
seventy-ninth year, and for over half a century 
he has labored efficiently as a local preacher. 
His life has been marked by vicissitudes and 
trials. Following the sea for many years, he 



has suffered from fevers in foreign climes 
and from shipwreck, but out of all these God 
delivered him, and now, in the enjoyment of an 
honored old age, he has the h;ippy retrospect 
of many years of active work in leading 
others toward the higher life, and the glorious 
prospect of a blessed eternity. His faithful 
services and loyalty to the Church have well 
merited the recognition he has been accorded, 
and his high character demands the admira- 
tion of all who know him. 



REV. JOHN N. LISCOMB. 

John N. Liseomb was born in Hartland, 
Vt,, in 1833. lie removed to Potsdam, N. Y., 
when twelve years of age, and attended the 
academy there a short time, this being the 
only educational course he received except 
the advantages afforded by the public school. 
When eighteen years old he removed with his 
parents, who were life-long and earnest Meth- 
odists, to Wisconsin, and shortly after was 
converted. His marriage to Miss Hannah B. 
Heard took place when he was twenty-five. 
He soon became convinced of a call to preach, 
but on account of his limited education he 
postponed the matter for four years, when, on 
the advice of his faithful wife, he consulted 
his pastor, Rev. E. Yocum — now in the West 
Wisconsin Conference — who proposed to set 
him to work at once. At this time, however, 
a draft for nine months' service in the army 
reached him, and he enlisted in November, 
1862, in the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry, and 
served three years. He was in a hard battle 
three days after joining his regiment, and 
took part in several afterward, including the 
siege of Port Hudson. In all this series of 
exciting events and perilous situations he was 
never wounded or injured, and in 1865, being 
honorably discharged, he removed to Owa- 
tonna, Minn. Two years later he was licensed 
to preach, and in 1869 entered the Minnesota 
Conference. His ministry has been one of 



Joseph H. Mansfield. 



Will Cumback. 



Henry H. Heins. 



James Coote. 




Henry Schutz. J. F. Marshall. E. D. Whitl 




Homer Eaton. A.J. Kynett. J. P. Sims. John C. Jackson, Jr. 



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abundant blessing to many, and his labors 
hare been rich in results. As the pastor of 
various charges, as Presiding Elder for five 
years, on Winnebago City and Mankato Dis- 
tricts, and as Conference treasurer for a long 
time he has in all of these positions demon- 
strated his fitness for their responsibilities, 
and has fulfilled his trusts with rare success. 



Rev. ANDREW J. NELSON. 

Andrew J. Nelson, third son of Robert J. 
and Elizabeth F. Nelson, was born in Ohio, 
July 30, 1828. Taking the classical course in 
Ohio Wesleyan University, he was graduated 
with honor, and in 1851-52 studied law. He 
was Principal of Grove School Academy in 
1853-54, and was married to Miss Mary 
Adelia Patterson, of Xenia, O. His conversion 
took place on the first day of the year 1856, 
and on the following Sabbath he preached 
his first sermon, at Clifton. He was licensed 
to preach by Dr. Cyrus Brook in February, 
and united Avith the Wisconsin Conference in 
October of the same year. At the organiza- 
tion of the Minnesota Conference lie became 
a member of that body. He was transferred 
to the California Conference by Bishop Ames, 
and appointed Professor of Mathematics in 
the University of the Pacific. 

Mr. Nelson has served fifteen years in the 
pastorate, nine years as Presiding Elder, four 
years as professor in our universities, and four 
years as principal of academies. He has 
published seven review articles, four memorial 
addresses, and twenty-two sermons and lect- 
ures. He is an excellent preacher, and is 
now pastor of First Church, Alameda, Cali- 
fornia Conference. 



Prof. JACOB WERNLT. 

This veteran educator is a native of Thal- 

heim, Canton Aargau. Switzerland, having 
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been born there on the 13th of July, 1828. 
He is a graduate of the best normal schools 
of his native country, and thus combines the 
theory of the Old World with the practice of 
the New. In 1854 he was superintendent of 
public schools in Bonniswyi, Switzerland; in 
1859 school-master in Waupaca County, Wis. ; 
in 1864 county superintendent in the same 
State; in 1866 principal in one of the public 
high schools in Milwaukee ; in 1867 professor 
in the State Normal School at Plattville ; in 
1868 Principal of the North-western German- 
English Normal School at Galena, and has 
been for many years a prominent conductor 
of normal institutes in Iowa. He is now the 
honored President of the North-western 
Normal Institute and Business College at Le 
Mare, la. His enthusiasm and exaltation 
of purpose are remarkable, and never fail to 
impress his hearers. 

Professor Wernli joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church in 1867, and since that 
time has been a local preacher, and for a 
number of years has filled the offices of presi- 
dent of the board of trustees, class-leader, 
and Sunday-school superintendent. He was 
a delegate to the General Conference of 1884 
and was one of the assistant secretaries. He 
is a representative from the North-west Ger- 
man Conference. 



REV. NATHAN H. AXTELL, D.D. 

Among the men of honorable distinction in 
our Church is Nathan H. Axtell, of the Rock 
River Conference. He was born June 1, 1836, 
in Sheakleyville, Mercer County, Pa. After 
completing his studies in the Preparatory 
Department in Allegheny College he taught 
school and reported the stirring events of 
border life in Missouri in 1856. In 1857 he 
was principal of public schools of Council 
Bluffs, and in 1860 was graduated from 
Allegheny College. He taught iii Allegheny 
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ern University, and took the theological 
course in Garrett Biblical Institute in 1860— 
63. Two years later he joined the Rock 
River Conference, and has remained in the 
active ministerial work, steadily declining all 
offers of college places. The Garrett Biblical 
Institute honored him with the degree of 
Doctor of Divinity in 1880. 

Articles from the pen of Dr. Axtell in the 
Nortli-westem Christian Advocate had re- 
ceived the hearty commendation of many of 
the leading men of the Church, and at the 
General Conference of 1880, of which he was 
a member, his nomination was warmly urged 
for the position of editor of that paper, but 
without any previous planning. He received a 
very large vote, including the vote of the 
patronizing Conferences. His manly qualities 
and grand intellectual abilities render his 
name one of potent influence in Methodism. 



DAVID T. DENNY, ESQ. 

David T. Denny, the lay delegate from 
the Paget Sound Conference is a native of 
Putnam County, Ind., having been born there 
March 17, 1832. His fathers famity moved 
to Knox County, 111., three years later, and 
in 1851 the subject of this sketch drove a 
four-horse team over the plains to Oregon, 
arriving in Portland on the 17th of August. 
In September following he traveled on foot 
to Puget Sound, and proceeded thence in a 
ship's long-boat to Elliott's Bay, on the shore 
of which Seattle is located. He assisted in 
laying the first log-cabin in King County. 

Mr. Denny's conversion took place in his 
father's house when he was about twelve 
years old. He was married to Louisa Boren 
in Seattle on January 23, 1853, and they have 
resided there ever since. The name of David 
T. Denny is one well known to Methodists 
throughout that section of the country, and 
to his stanch support our Church there owes 
much of its prosperity. 



HON. FREDERICK W. HOYT. 

Hon. Frederick W. Hoyt was elected a re- 
serve lay delegate by the Minnesota Confer- 
ence, and took his seat May 15. He was 
born June 1, 1841, in Orleans County, N. Y. 
He is well known as an able lawyer, and has 
been engaged in his profession at Red Wing, 
Minn., since 1865, and was a member of the 
Minnesota State Legislature in 1880 and 1881. 
He is President of the Duluth, Red Wing 
&l Southern Railroad Co., a trustee of Ham- 
line University, and for several years has 
superintended one of the largest Methodist 
Episcopal Sunday-schools in the State. 



Rev. GARRET R. VANHORNE. 

Rev. Garret R. Vanhorne, of the Rock 
River Conference, was born June 30, 1841, in 
Franklin, N. J. He was converted in his 
seventeenth year, and received license to 
preach before he was eighteen. In the fall 
of 1859 he entered Garrett Biblical Institute, 
Evanston, 111. He enlisted for the war in 
August, 1861, in Taylor's Battery of Light 
Artillery, from Chicago, 111. In 1865 he -was 
admitted on trial in Rock River Conference, 
and served efficiently as pastor until 1884, 
when he was made Presiding Elder of the 
Rockford District, where he is at present per- 
forming a work that is calculated to be far- 
reaching and enduring in its results. He is 
an energetic worker, and an earnest and log- 
ical preacher. 



Rev. NOBLE GIRVIN MILLER, D.D. 

Rev. Noble Girvin Miller, D.D., the sketch 
of whose life we here present, "was of Scotch- 
Irish ancestry. His parents were strict Pres- 
byterians. For more than thirty years they 
have been worthy members of the Methodist 
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Blairsville, Indiana County, Pa., April 1, 1837. 
In January, 1858, he was converted, and De- 
cember following was licensed exhorter. The 
year following he was licensed to preach, in 
Meadville, while attending college. He was 
graduated in 1861, and recommended to the 
Conference by the Quarterly Conference in 
Blairsville in 1862. As none were received 
into the Conference that year, he traveled 
under the direction of the Presiding Elder. 
In 1863 he entered on trial at the Conference 
held in Coshocton, O., and appointed to his for- 
mer charge. Bishop Ames ordained him deacon 
in 1865 in Canton, O., and Bishop Thomson 
ordained him elder in Massillon, O., in 1867. 

With eminent popularity and success he 
has served important charges, and won hosts 
of friends by his amiable qualities. For 
twelve or thirteen years he has been elected 
to serve as Assistant and Recording Secretary 
for his Conference. His alma mater conferred 
the degree of A.M. upon him, and subsequently 
the degree of D.D. Dr. Miller has had a clear 
religious experience. His early childhood 
training by a devout Presbyterian mother 
filled him with constant conviction for 
sin and the conscious need of salvation. 
His conversion was of the old type; deep 
penitence for sin and joyful deliverance from 
sin. He is now filling with great fidelity the 
fourth year of his term as Presiding Elder of 
McKeesport District, Pittsburg Conference. 



REV. JOHN W. STEWART. 

Rev. John W. Stewart, at present the able 
and efficient Presiding Elder of the Nebraska 
City District, in Nebraska Conference, is in 
the prime of his manhood, having been born 
in Troy, N. Y., July 18, 1838. He received 
the educational advantages afforded by the 
Hedding College, 111., where he diligently 
studied and obtained his education. He be- 
came a member of the Central Illinois Confer- 
ence in 1858. On the breaking out of the 



Civil War, 1861, he entered the army, enlist- 
ing as Captain, in Company D, 64th Illinois 
Infantry. At the battle of Corinth he was 
severely wounded. This was in October, 

1862. He was promoted to Major the follow- 
ing December. He was married in September, 

1863. For twelve years he filled good ap- 
pointments in the Central Illinois Conference. 
Since 1873 he has been a member of the Ne- 
braska Conference. With success he served 
the Church at Omaha. He is now in his 
third year as Presiding Elder of Nebraska 
City District. His abilities and faithfulness 
have given him right to the important po- 
sition he holds, and the estimate of his worth 
by his brethren is well attested by his election 
to the General Conference. 



MILLARD F. PARKER, ESQ. 

Millard Fillmore Parker, son of a Methodist 
preacher, was born in Merriweather County, 
Ga., on the 16th of August, 1856. The earli- 
est recollections of Mr. Parker are those of 
cruelty to slaves and the evils growing there- 
from. His father also insilled into this mind, 
by denouncing slavery as " cruel and inhu- 
man," vivid impressions of the great curse. 
He removed to the State of Alabama with his 
father in 1859. Early in life he was put at 
school, and continued until he had finished a 
collegiate course. His father, as above indi- 
cated, was a "circuit rider," and for four years 
attended to that work, when he was made 
Presiding Elder, and served in that capacity 
sixteen years. His father's limited means 
compelled Mr. Parker to teach and attend 
school alternately until his course was finished. 
Most of the years since he has been a teacher- 
In 1883 he was elected Principal of Simpson 
Institute, which he was instrumental in build- 
ing. Serving there two years, he was ad- 
mitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law. Mr. 
Parker was converted in his eighth year in a 
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had been baptized into the Methodist faith 
while an infant, and reared according to the 
covenant. On account of his loyalty to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and his fathers 
connection therewith as a minister, he lias 
been greatly persecuted. Mr. Parker's ances- 
tors about two centuries ago came from Leipsic, 
Saxony, Germany, and were distinguished for 
sterling principle and great sympathy with 
the unfortunate. He is lay delegate from 
Alabama Conference. 



REV. ALEXANDER MARTIN, D.D., LL.D. 

Rev. Alexander Martin lias been a Meth- 
odist preacher and teacher over forty years, 
and his name is well and favorably known 
throughout Methodism. Dr. Martin, who at 
present holds the important position of Presi- 
dent of the De Pauw University, was born 
in Scotland in 1824. He was graduated from 
Alleghany College in 1847, and united with 
the Pittsburg Conference the same year. 
He received the appointment that year of 
Prof esse >r in the North- w est V irgi n i a Academy. 
In 1849-51 was stationed in Charleston, Va., 
then returned to take charge of the Academy, 
remaining there until 1854, serving one year 
as pastor in Clarksburg. Desiring to resume 
the pastorate, he was stationed in Mounds- 
ville, but during the same year was elected 
Professor of Greek in Allegheny College. 
In 18(34-07 he had charge of Fourth Street 
Station, Wheeling, and during the war was 
President of the West Virginia branch of the 
Christian Commission. 

In 1867, while stationed at Parkersburg, 
he was called to organize the West Virginia 
University, and was elevated to the Presidency 
thereof. In 1875 he was elected President of 
the Indiana Asbury (now " De Pauw) Uni- 
versity. In 1863 he was honored by the 
degree of D.D. from the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, and in 1878 the degree of LL.D. 
from his alma mater. Such has been the 



popularity of Dr. Martin that he was called 
as a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference 
at London, and to the Centennial Conference 
at Baltimore. He was for many years secre- 
tary of the West Virginia Conference. In 
1875 he became a member of the Indiana 
Conference. A noble educator and a noble 
man. 



REV. JOHN C. FLOYD. 



John C. Floyd was born on a backwoods 
farm in Butler, Branch County, Mich., July 2, 
1852. Among the aids to his education were 
the district school, village school, and the 
University of Michigan, which latter he en- 
tered in 1872, being graduated in 187C. In 
August, 1876, he united in marriage with Miss 
Myrtle Jessie Haynes. His ministerial expe- 
rience dates from the fall of 1876, when he 
joined the Michigan Conference. He was ap- 
pointed to Riverton and Riverton Mission 
Circuit by Bishop Gilbert Haven. After rill- 
ing acceptably other charges he was appointed 
Presiding Elder of Big River District in 1885. 
His ministry has been spent all on one District, 
and he has won the esteem of multitudes 
among all classes. His promptness and care 
are especially commendable. His ability to 
manage a large district has been fully demon- 
strated, and his labors among the churches 
are fruitful in large results. 



MILES N. HAMBLETON, ESQ. 

Miles N. Hambleton is a lay delegate from 
Kentucky Conference, and by virtue of his 
merit, so generally conceded, was chosen 
to represent, with Mr. Amos Shinkle, his 
Conference in the great Methodist General 
Conference of 1888. Mr. Hambleton is a son 
of Methodist parents, and is native of Mor- 
gan County, O. His 'birthday was October 
22, 1849. At ten years of age he removed 
with his parents to Meigs County, O. This 



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locality being distant from any Methodist 
Episcopal Church, his parents united with 
the United Brethren Church. Mr. Ham- 
bleton joined the above Church after his con- 
version in 1868. From this Church he received 
a letter of membership, and joined the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church at Catlettsburg, Ky. 
This was in 1870. Since that time he has 
been constant and abundant in good works, 
serving with heroic devotion the Church of 
his choice and love. He has filled many 
otfices in the Church with great Christian fidel- 
ity. He has been class-leader, Sunday-school 
superintendent, and steward, and in all man- 
ifested a care and zeal worthy of imitation. 
His life has been a quiet, uneventful one, but 
full of earnest and consistent service for his 
divine Master. He is eminently true to the 
Church of Christ, and holds strongly to Meth- 
odistic doctrines and usages. 



WASHINGTON G. ALLEN, ESQ. 

Washington George Allen for the second 
time enjoys the high honor of representing 
Central Alabama Conference as lay delegate. 
In March, 1849, he was born of slave parents in 
Limestone County, Ala., and was himself a 
slave until emancipation was brought about 
by President Lincoln's proclamation. For a 
short time he attended a private school, and 
in 1867 he entered Rust Institute, Huntsville, 
Ala., at which place he now resides. Sev- 
eral years of instruction in that institution 
prepared him for the profession of teacher, 
in which he has been engaged ever since 1877. 
His superior ability to serve the Church has 
been often recognized, and he has in turn been 
class-leader, steward, trustee, and superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Huntsville. He has 
always been exceedingly faithful to every 
department of work assigned him, and has 
shown most heroic affection for his Church. 
His services at the General Conference of 



1881 were heartily and well rendered, and he 
again appears with the indorsement of his 
Conference to do the work of legislation in 
the great evangelistic Church, of his choice. 
He will do honor to the body, and win a 
multitude of friends. 



Rev. A. CLARK CROSTHWAITE. 

Rev. A. Clark Crosthwaite, whose brief 
biographical sketch is herewith given, has 
served almost continuously in the pastorate 
since he has been a minister of the Gospel, 
and with such acceptability and success as to 
win the reputation of a first-class Methodist 
minister. He was born in Millheim, Centre 
County, Pa., January 21, 1844. His father, 
Rev. M. P. Crosthwaite, is a member of the 
Central Pennsylvania Conference. By trade 
Mi-. Crosthwaite is a printer, entering the office 
a mere lad. He had the advantages of aca- 
demic education. His occupation during the 
winters of 1860-62 was teaching. In 1862 he 
was led to Christ, his conversion occurring at 
a camp-meeting on the Catawissa Circuit, 
Northumberland District, East Baltimore 
Conference. He served in Colonel Johnston's 
emergency regiment, 113th Pennsylvania, in 
1862. In August, 1863, he graduated at East- 
man's Commercial College. From that time 
until his entrance upon the ministry, in May, 
1867, he was occupied in store, counting-room, 
and printing office, except from March, 1865, 
to the July following, during which time he 
served as Orderly Sergeant of Captain George 
Shipp's Company, 103d Regiment Veteran 
Volunteers. He entered the ministry under 
Rev. John Guyer, Presiding Elder, on the 
Berwick Circuit, East Baltimore Conference, 
with Rev. P. F. Eyer as preacher in charge. 
In 1868 he was admitted into this Conference 
on trial, and appointed junior preacher to 
Bloomingdale Circuit, hisfather beingpreacher 
in charge. By the formation of the Central 
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its territory, w here lie remained until March, 
1878, when he was transferred to Nebraska 
Conference. He has been secretary of that 
Conference four years. One year he served 
as steward and treasurer of the Williamsport 
Dickinson Seminary. He will make a sterling- 
delegate of the Conference of 1888. 



SILAS EASTERLING, ESQ. 

Silas Easterling, lay delegate from South 
Carolina Conference, was born August 14, 
1843. He united with the Church of his 
choice, the Methodist Episcopal, in June, 

1876. He dates his conversion from August 
22, 1877. On the 24th day of November, 

1877, he was received into full connection in 
the Church. Soon he was chosen to serve 
as district steward, and later as a member of 
the District Conference, which office he still 
holds. He has been identified with every 
good work, and he is especially active in all 
the movements of the Church looking toward 
spiritual and temporal growth. With com- 
mendable fidelity he has stood firm for the 
"old Church," for which he has ever cherished 
profound love. ■ That his zeal and faithful- 
ness are appreciated is shown by his election 
to the important trust of delegate to the 
General Conference. 



JAMES P. ANDREWS, M.D. 

James P. Andrews is a native of Tennessee, 
born in Trousdale County, March 17, 1841). 
His owner died when he was about six years 
of age. After his owner's death his property 
was divided among his children, and Mr. 
James Andrews, his owner's son, bought, him 
in soon after. After a short period he was 
sold to another brother in the same family, 
named John Andrews. He remained his 
property until the close of the late war. He 
worked on Mr. Andrews's farm until 1869. I 



At this time he left his old home, and went 
to Gallatin, Tenn. Here he worked with Mr. 
Wesley Lock, a brick-mason, and while at 
work with him learned for the first time his 
alphabet, he being at that time twenty years 
of age. Leaving his place in the summer of 
the same year, he went to work in Kentucky, 
on the farm of Dr. Williams; while there he 
unfortunately had his foot broken, and was 
sent home to his mother at Hartsville, Tenn. 
For three years he was at home, unable to do 
any work. In 1871 he entered school at Central 
Tennessee College, with only seven dollars, 
and was compelled to work to pay his board 
and other expenses. He was soon thereafter 
converted, and six months later licensed as local 
preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He was in one year ordained a deacon at 
Brownsville, Tennessee. For five years he 
acted as pastor in two charges. Commencing 
the study of medicine in Meharry Medical 
Department in 1877, he was graduated in 
1879, and now practices at Chattanooga, Tenn. 
His is a most eventful history, and he now 
appears in the General Conference as lay 
delegate from East Tennessee Conference. 



Rev. JACOB HORTON, B.D. 

Rev. Jacob Horton, an eminentby use- 
ful minister of the Detroit Conference, was 
born on a farm one mile west of the village 
of Farmington, Oakland County, Mich., on the 
9th of March, 1840. He remained on the 
farm until he was of age, working on the same 
during summer months and attending school 
in winter. In the fall of 1859-60 he attended 
school at Ypsilanti, first at the State Nor- 
mal and then at the Ypsilanti Union 
School. He spent three years in study at 
Garrett Biblical Institute, at Evanston, 111. 
He graduated in 1863, and as no degrees 
were conferred by the institution he did not 
receive the degree of B.D. until 1882. He 
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to preach in 1860, and was received on trial 
in the Detroit Conference in 1863. He was 
led to Christ under the ministration of Rev. 
Curtis Mosher. Prior to his entrance upon 
the ministry he was obliged to teach school, 
to secure aid in obtaining his education. He 
held important official relations to the Church 
before entering the ministry, and the Rev. J. J. 
Gridley gave him license as exhorter May 
10, 1858, and Rev. M. Hickey gave him his 
license as local preacher October 20, 1860. 
Great revivals have been the fruit of Mr. 
Horton's labors. He is of medium size, dark 
complexion, and looks younger than he really 
is. He is a vigorous preacher and a popular 
elder. 



REV. JAMES M. THOBURN, D.D. 

Rev. James M. Thoburn, D.D., delegate 
from Bengal Conference, is of Scotch-Irish 
parentage, and was born near St. Clairsville, 
O., March 7, 1836. His heroic early struggles 
exercised and developed the manly qualities 
which he has so eminently displayed in the 
prosecution of his great life-mission. He Avas 
left fatherless at fourteen years of age, and a 
year later started from home, unburdened 
with resources, to prepare for his future. By 
combining teaching and study he succeeded 
in securing a good education in Allegheny 
College, from which he was graduated June 
24, 1857. He was converted at the age of 
nineteen, and in 1858 entered the Pittsburg 
Conference. Early in 1859 he was appointed 
a missionary to India. In company with 
several co-workers he set sail on April 11. 
On arrival at Calcutta he took charge of 
Nairn Tal, a Himalayan station. His indefati- 
gable labors as pastor and Presiding -Elder 
for the succeeding fifteen years, his extensive 
travels in the interests of new and existing 
missions, his trophies won in the salvation of 
heathen and increase of mission agencies 
are known to all who are familiar with the 
progress of one of our most successful missions. 



His own energies, as well as those of his 
wife and son, have had their consecration and 
glory in hastening the day of India's redemp- 
tion. His brief furloughs have been well 
spent in endeavoring to promote the work he 
has at heart, and have borne good fruit. 
From time to time his voice and pen have 
been used in presenting to the Church at 
home the cause of missions, and always with 
clearness and fervor combined with sagacity 
and statesmanlike ability. 

He represented the India and South India 
Conferences in the General Confereuces of 
1876 and 1880. 



Rev. JOHN WIGREN. 

Rev. John Wigren is the only ministerial 
delegate from the North-west Swedish Confer- 
ence. A native of Sweden, he emigrated to 
this country in 1852, arriving in New York 
the 27th day of August. Grenna, Sweden, 
was his birthplace, his birthday October 
1, 1826. He was converted on his arrival in 
New York on the well-known Bethel Ship, 
through the influence of Rev. O. P. Hedstrom. 
The three events of great import in his life 
took place in the three days of his history in 
New York : first, his arrival ; second, his con- 
version ; third, his departure for the West. 
He left August 30, and arrived in Lafayette, 
Inch, September 11, 1852. He united with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church in the sum- 
mer of 1853. His ability to instruct was 
early witnessed, and he was appointed class- 
leader, exhorter, and local preacher. During 
the first eleven years spent in this country 
he worked at his trade, that of a master me- 
chanic. He entei'ed the regular ministry in 
the fall of 1863, in the Swedish work at that 
time belonging to the Central Illinois Confer- 
ence. After good service in several charges 
in that Conference he was associated after its 
organization with the North-west Swedish Con- 
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Presiding Elder of the Chicago District in that 
Conference. The incessant toils of this devout 
man of God have resulted in great good, and 
he goes to the General Conference with a 
high record of triumphs won for Christ. 



HENRY H. AVANT, ESQ., 

Henry H. Avant was born in Virginia, but 
reared in Mississippi. In the fall of 1873 he 
entered Rust University at Holly Springs, 
Miss., an institution under the auspices of the 
Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. By means of teaching 
and laboring otherwise during vacations, to- 
gether with the encouragements and assistance 
of friends and teachers, and exercising fru- 
gality with his earnings, lie was successful in 
his graduation at Rust University in June v 
1881. He taught school several terms until 
the fall of 1883, when he was matriculated at 
the University of Michigan, in the Law De- 
partment, being graduated from that insti- 
tution in June, 1<SS5. He is at present 
practicing law at Greenville, Miss. His ele- 
vation and position as a delegate have been 
attained by the real worth and ability of Mr. 
Avant. He is in love with Methodism, and 
abundant in good works. He is a represent- 
ative from Mississippi Conference. 



Rev. WILLIAM PAGE STOWE, D.D. 

William Page Stowe was born of Meth- 
odist parents in Haverhill, N. H., and is in the 
sixth generation from John Stow, who came 
from England to Boston in 1634. He emi- 
grated to Wisconsin in 1843, before he had 
reached his " teens." Here his boyhood was 
spent amid hardships and perils incident to 
pioneer life. He was converted and joined 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at seventeen, 
was graduated from Lawrence University, and 
entered the Wisconsin Conference in 1858. 



Failing health compelled a location at the 
end of his second year. After three years of 
valuable business experience in a mercantile 
and banking house, with improved health he 
entered the army as Chaplain of the 27th 
Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, and served 
under Grant at Vicksburg and other points. 
Returning from the war, he was re-admitted 
into the Conference, served several of the most 
important charges as pastor, and eight years 
as Presiding Elder of the Milwaukee and 
Janesville Districts. He was elected agent of 
the Western Book Concern in 1880, and re- 
elected in 1884. He was a member of the 
Book Committee from 1876 to 1880. He 
was a reserve delegate to the General Confer- 
ence of 1872, and delegate in 1876, 1880, 
and 1884. In 1859 he married Miss Grace 
H. Bond, of Buffalo, N. Y. The name Stowe 
was originally spelled without an "e," but 
in 1852 the family decided to add it. 

Dr. Stowe is possessed of remarkable- 
business qualities, and is a live, earnest, and 
aggressive Methodist. His ministerial and 
business achievements have been of a high 
order. 



Rev. DAVID S. MONROE, D.D. 

Rev. David S. Monroe, delegate from the 
Central Pennsylvania Conference, is a native 
of Loudoun County, Va. His varied and 
symmetrical career dates from April 15, 
1833. Two of the prime factors upon which 
grave issues hinged were his thorough educa- 
tion in Baltimore City College and his 
early conversion, on November 28, 1848. 
After leaving college he engaged in the drug 
business, and subsequently as financial clerk 
and book-keeper. His fidelity to principle 
triumphed over one of its first great tests; 
he was appointed Assistant Post-master of 
Baltimore City, but on account of Sunday 
work being necessary declined to accept the 
position. He was licensed to preach in July, 
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1859-62. During this period he presided at 
the presentation of a flag to the First Regiment 
Union soldiers, and held the first religious 
services with the loyal regiments sent to Bal- 
timore. He was also correspondent of The 
Christian Advocate, and assistant secretary of 
the East Baltimore Conference. Since the 
organization of the Central Pennsylvania 
Conference in 1869 he has acted as its secre- 
tary, and always been elected by acclamation. 
His genius for painstaking and expeditious 
work in the arduous office of secretary has 
been amply utilized. In February last he 
was at once the secretary of a Quarterly, Dis- 
trict, Annual, and General Conference. In 
the General Conferences of 1876 and 1880 he 
acted as assistant secretary, and was made 
secretary in 1884. In that year he nominated 
the first colored assistant secretary of the 
General Conference, when he named Professor 
Crogman. 

He has served the following principal 
charges in his Conferences : Mount Vernon and 
Emory, Baltimore ; York (twice) ; Chambers- 
burg; Pine Street, Williamsport ; Eighth Ave- 
nue, Altoona; Lewisburg, Bloomsburg; and 
Bellefonte. On account of family affliction he 
has been compelled to decline the Presiding 
Eldership seven times. 

The success which has attended his la- 
bors in responsible pastoral and official posi- 
tions has been very marked, and is evident in 
some measure to the whole Church. 



HON. RUSSEL R. PEALER. 

Russel R. Pealer is one of the honorable 
and efficient lay delegates from the Michigan 
Conference. He is a native of Greenwood, 
Columbia County, Pa., having his birth there 
January 1, 1842. In his school life he at- 
tended the common schools and the New 
Columbus and Orangeville Academies. He 
served his country as a volunteer in Company 
E, 1 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and wa3 pro- 

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rooted from a private to a Sergeant-Major of 
his regiment, and later as Second and First 
Lieutenant. He was wounded while leading 
a charge at Hatcher's Run, Va., February 
6, 1865. He was admitted to the bar at 
Bloomsburg, Pa., and has resided at Three 
Rivers, Mich., since November, 1867, engaged 
in the practice of his profession. He was 
elected and served as Circuit Judge of the 
Circuit for the full term of six years, entering 
his office January last. The Judge was 
reared by Methodist parents, and was con- 
verted at Asbury, Pa., and has been a devout 
member of the Church since 1859, and has 
served as Sunday-school superintendent and in 
other important official relations. He has a 
wife — nee Sue F. Santee, of Bradford County, 
Pa. — and two daughters living, all members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



REV.. JOHN M. REID, D.D., LL.D. 

Rev. John Morrison Reid, a distinguished 
member of the delegation of the Michigan 
Conference, was born in New York city, 
May 30, 1820. His earliest education was 
obtained in the public schools of the city and 
the Classical School of St. Luke's Episcopal 
Church. After starting in business he was 
ordered to sample a cargo of gin preparatory 
to its sale, but refused to do so and resigned 
the position. Through friendly arrangement 
with Chancellor Matthews he was enabled 
to enter the New York University, from which 
he received the degree of B.A. in 1839. 
From this period until his admission to New 
York Conference, in 1844, his energies were 
employed as Vice-Principal and later as Prin- 
cipal of the Mechanic's Institute School, N. Y. 
He took a thorough course in Union Theolog- 
ical Seminary, graduating in 1842. From his 
alma mater he received the degrees of M. A. and 
D.D., and from Syracuse University that of 
LL.D. in 1881. Dr. Reid was converted when 
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aid from the Bible-class conducted by Rev, 
Joseph Long-king, D.D. He worked earnestly 
in connection with Harlem Mission, and* by 
its Quarterly Conference was licensed exhorter 
and local preacher. 

Extensive revivals have crowned his labors 
in the pastorate. Amongst others he served 
on the following charges : Birmingham, Conn.; 
Middletown, Conn.; Seventh Street, New 
York; Summerfield, Brooklyn, and Bridgeport, 
Conn. During his pastorate the present Church 
edifices in Birmingham and Summerfield were 
erected. As leader in temperance work his 
power has been markedly felt throughout 
his native State. 

The weight of his advocacy was early and 
earnestly used in favor of the abolition of slav- 
ery as opposed to colonization. On this issue 
he was elected to General Conference in 1856, 
and has been a member of every General 
Conference since. Outside the pastorate he 
worthily filled responsible positions. For many 
years he was President of Genesee College, and 
still later Editor of the Western and North- 
western Christian Advocate. In 1872 he was 
elected to his present office, that of Correspond- 
ing Secretary of our Missionary Society. In 
length of service he has exceeded his predeces- 
sors save Dr. Durbin, while he has exceeded 
them all in visits to our mission fields. He 
was delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in 
London, and then visited our European 
missions at his own expense. He was 
elected Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Canada in 1874, but declined the 
office. He has added to his wealth of service 
for the Church by the endowment of a chair 
in Albion College. 



Rev. DANIEL R. LOWRIE. 

Rev. Daniel R. Lowrie, delegate from the 
Newark Conference, is a Scotchman by birth, 
and was brought up in accordance with the 
principles of the Presbyterian Church, of 



which his parents were devoted members. 
Early in life he emigrated to this country, 
and, having decided upon entering the medi- 
cal profession, he studied in the Brooklyn 
College of Physicians and Surgeons with a 
view to this end. Dining this preparatory 
course he was called to the ministry, and 
commenced his itinerant career as supply on 
the Parsippany and Whippany charge. He 
joined the Newark Conference in 1863, and 
has since served on the following amongst 
other charges : Belleville; Embury Church, 
Jersey City ; Cross Street, Paterson ; St. Paul's, 
Jersey City ; Haverstraw, N. Y. ; First Church, 
Hoboken, etc. His entire ministry has been 
attended with marked revivals, resulting in 
general and extensive increase of membership. 
Sound scholarship, skill in organizing, and 
pulpit ability have been amongst the under- 
lying factors leading to his success. 

In our educational work he has taken a 
deep interest and rendered important service. 
Recognition of his usefulness in this direction 
was attested some years ago by his appoint- 
ment to a place on the Board of Examination 
of Drew Theological Seminary, while in his 
election to the General Conference as well as 
in other ways his brethren have shown their 
cordial regard for his spotless character and 
gratifying career. 



JOHN B. WILLIAMS, ESQ. 

Captain John Beatty Williams, lay dele- 
gate from Central Ohio Conference, was born 
in Marion, O., December 28, 1837. In youth 
he was favored with a good education, and had 
just started in business when the Civil War 
broke out. He enlisted in the 96th Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, was soon promoted to the 
rank of Captain, and in that capacity rendered 
valuable service in many campaigns. In 1865 
he married the only daughter of Mr. William 
Rutan, a highly respected citizen of Bellefon- 
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filling for many years past the position of 
Vice-President of the People's National Bank. 
His work in the Church has be<m of the 
most thorough -going character, and stretches 
back over a lengthened period of time. He 
has fulfilled the duties of steward and Sunday- 
school superintendent for twenty-one and 
fourteen years respectively, and with such 
wisdom and zeal that the best interests of 
both these departments have been greatly 
promoted. Throughout a wide community 
his name is a synonym for integrity, gener- 
osity, and other elements of character of the 
most substantial value to the Church and the 
world. 



CALVIN WHITNEY, ESQ. 

Calvin Whitney, lay delegate from the 
North Ohio Conference, had the foundation 
of his successful career carefully laid in farm 
life in Ohio. He is a native of Townsend, 
Huron County, and was born September 25, 
1846. His business record is a story which 
happily blends large achievement and faith- 
ful stewardship. At the age of twenty he 
started in the lumber trade on a small scale, 
but in his hands this soon developed to $150,- 
000 per annum. He located in Norwalk, O., 
in 1875, and has resided there ever since. 
Through his joint action the u A. B . Chase 
Company," for the manufacture of organs and 
pianos, was organized in 1875, and two years 
later, on the death of Mr. Chase, he was 
unanimously elected its President, while yet 
in his thirty-first year. In February, 1875, 
Mr. Whitney and his wife united with the 
First Methodist Episcopal Church in Nor- 
Avalk, of which they have proved zealous and 
generous members. With large-hearted liber- 
ality he subscribed $10,000 in 1882 to the 
Loan Fund of the Church Extension Society, 
naming it in honor of his wife "The Marian 
Whitney Fund." For several years past he 
has toiled vigorously to secure a better pro- 
vision for the superannuated and worn-out 



preachers of the North Ohio Conference, and 
amongst other benefactions $5,000 toward a 
fund of $25,000 raised for that purpose. His 
whole-hearted and constant service is a 
mighty power in the community, while the 
esteem reposed in him by his brethren of the 
Lay Conference has received expression in 
practically unanimous elections to the Gen- 
eral Conferences of 1884 and 1888. 



Rev. WILLIAM N. McELROY, D.D. 

Rev. William N. McElroy, delegate from 
the Illinois Conference, inherits the advan- 
tages of a godly Scotch-Irish ancestry, 
although he was born in Harrison County, 
O., June 10, 1882. The intervening years be- 
tween 1840 and manhood were spent in Illi- 
nois, embracing the best educational facilities 
then and there within reach. He was con- 
verted in 1858, and admitted to the Illinois 
Conference four years later. He at once took 
rank as a preacher, and the reputation thus 
early acquired has been amply sustained. He 
has occupied the leading pulpits in his Con- 
ference for twenty-five years, during six of 
which he served as presiding elder. He was 
a member of the General Conference of 187(> 
and 1884, as well as of the Ecumenical Con- 
ference, which met in London in 1881, and in 
every position has ably served the important 
trusts committed to his care. As a powerful 
preacher, a versatile writer, and a man of ex- 
tensive literal-}* attainments, Dr. McElroy has 
won for himself a name and a place amongst 
men of light and leading. His strong capa- 
bilities and fullness of vigor promise many 
years of noble service in the Church. 



REV. THOMAS B. NEELY, Ph.D., D.D. 

Rev. Thomas B. Neely, who leads the dele- 
gation from the Philadelphia Conference, was 
born in Philadelphia, June 12, 1841. Four 



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generations of his ancestors were devoted 
Methodists. His early training and education 
were careful and thorough. He entered the 
Philadelphia Conference in 1865, and has ex- 
ercised his ministry exclusively within its 
bounds. With the exception of a short space 
of his early ministry devoted to editorial 
work, all his energies have been employed in 
the pastorate. His attainments as a close 
student have been recognized by the honorary 
degrees of Ph.D. and D.D., while his achieve- 
ments in a literary point of view have been 
very considerable. Apart from regular cor- 
respondence with religious journals, he has 
contributed many important articles to the 
Methodist Review, and is the author of the 
following works : Young Workers in the 
Church, The Church Lyceum, Parliament- 
ary Practice, The Evolution of Episcopacy 
and Organic Methodism. 

The elegance of style and soundness of 
judgment displayed in the treatment of these 
live questions place Dr. Neely amongst those 
whose efforts mold existing currents of 
thought. His ability and popularity have re- 
ceived strong emphasis at the hands of his 
brethren. He was a member of the General 
Conference of 1884, and then as now led his 
delegation, receiving the largest vote ever cast 
for a delegate from the Philadelphia Confer- 
ence. Of other responsible positions he has 
held those of President of the Conference His- 
torical Society; Vice-President of the Educa- 
tion Society, and a manager of the parent 
Board of Church Extension. 

In knowledge of Church polity, readiness 
in debate, and success in pastoral relations 
Dr. Neely has secured for himself a reputa- 
tion which these limits cannot adequately rep- 
resent. 



JOHN E. RICKARDS, ESQ. 

John E. Rickards, lay delegate from the 
Montana Conference, was born in Delaware 
City, Del., July 23, 1848. His boyhood and 



youth were passed in the States of Delaware 
and Pennsylvania. In 1870 he went West and 
settled in Colorado, from which he removed 
to San Francisco in 1879, and thence to his 
present sphere in Montana four years later. 
Ilis toils for the welfare of the community at 
large, as well as for the extension of the cause 
of Methodism, have been constant, earnest, 
and attended with success. He now repre- 
sents the principal county of his State in the 
Territorial Legislature, and in this capacity 
thoroughly sustains the reputation secured by 
his ability and faithfulness. 

He also fills the office of Grand Chancellor 
of the Knights of Pythias of Montana. A 
devoted wife shares his joys and aids his 
labors. Their union has been blessed with 
several children, five of whom are now living. 



JOSIAH L. PARROTTE, ESQ. 

Josiah L. Parrotte, lay delegate from the 
West Nebraska Conference, is a native of 
Rushville, 111. His parents were devoted 
Methodists, and from them it was his high 
privilege to receive godly training in early 
life. As an instance of some of the fruit this 
bore it is worthy of note that he has always 
been a teetotaler. 

In opening manhood he enlisted in the 
137th Illinois Volunteers, and served through 
the Civil War in that regiment. On Decem- 
ber 12, 1866, he was united in marriage with 
Miss Mary L. Worthington, and some two 
vears later both became members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Since his conversion he has thrown himself 
heartily into various forms of Church work, 
notably within the precincts of the Sabbath- 
school. In this earnest toil he is ably assisted 
by Mrs. Parrotte and their daughter, leading 
workers in the same good cause. He is widely 
respected in his community, as he is beloved 
in the Church, for his integrity and success- 
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Rev. CHARLES 0. FISHER, D.D. 

Rev. Charles O. Fisher stands at the head 
of the Savannah Conference delegation, and 
has been the recipient of distinguished honors 
during his eventful ministry. On July 4, 
1830, he was born in Baltimore, Md., and 
his early education was obtained in the 
public schools of Baltimore County. He was 
converted in 1857, and became a member of 
the Strawberry Alley Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He entered the ministry in the 
Washington Conference in 1864, and was four 
years in West Virginia as missionary, organiz- 
ing and establishing the Church among 1 the 
freedmen of that State, in which he was emi- 
nently successful. He was transferred while 
Presiding Elder on the Rappahannock District 
to the Georgia Conference, and appointed Pre- 
siding Elder of the Savannah District. The 
field was missionary, and he, equal to the work, 
succeeded in establishing the Church in South 
Georgia. By the division of the Georgia and 
the organization of the Savannah Conference, 
in 1870, he became a member of the latter. 
He was a delegate to the General Conference 
from the Georgia Conference in 1876, being 
the only colored man who has ever represented 
a white constituency in that assembly. In 
1877 the degree of D.D. was conferred upon 
him by the University of Pennsylvania, and 
he was appointed a delegate to the Ecumen- 
ical Conference in London. He is now Pre- 
siding Elder, in which capacity he has served 
the Church sixteen years. He is eminently 
deserving of the exalted regard in which he is 
every-where held. 



DAVID S. SIGLER, ESQ. 

David S. Sigler, lay delegate from the Des 
Moines Conference, is in the third generation 
of a family eminent tor devotion to the great 
mission of Methodism. He was born in Dela- 
ware County, O., in December, 1811, received 



his education and grew up to manhood in that 
locality. Removing to Iowa in 1860 he united 
with its Volunteers soon after, and for three 
years manfully served and suffered on the 
battle-field. 

His Christian career stretches over twenty- 
five years, and has been marked by the utmost 
zeal and fidelity. He has consecrated all his 
property to the support of specific depart- 
ments of the cause of God, and is as tireless in 
his toils as he is generous with his gifts. His 
wife and three children are all devoted Chris- 
tian workers. 

The impress of Mr. Sigler's intense person- 
ality makes itself felt over a wide area, and 
yields a rich harvest, not only in holy enter- 
prises helped on, but in stimulating others to 
catch the same sacred flame. 



PROF. JOHN C. RIDPATH, LL.D. 

Professor John Clark Ridpath, LL.D., lay 
delegate from the North-west Indiana Confer- 
ence, was born in Putnam County, Ind., April 
26, 1810. His early life was not unmarked 
by difficulties and drawbacks. For the foun- 
dation of his scholarship he was indebted to 
the common frontier school and his own 
strong, steady determination. In boyhood he 
displayed unusual grasp of intellect and thirst 
for knowledge. Engaging for a time in the 
work of teaching he was enabled to enter 
Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University 
when in his nineteenth year. Ready and 
thorough mastery of his studies characterized 
his collegiate career. While yet a student he 
was elected to an instructorship in Thorntown 
Academy. He was graduated with the first 
honors of his class in June, 1863, and a year 
later became principal of the Thorntown 
Academy. In 1867 he was elected to the 
Chair of Languages in Baker University, in 
Baldwin City, Kan. His election to the Chair 
of English Literature in Asbury University 
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he was promoted to the Chair of Belles-Lettres 
and History. In this latter position some of 
his best educational work has been accom- 
plished. He was elected Vice-President of the 
University in 1879, and the following year 
received the degree of LL.D. from Syracuse 
University. Largely through his instrumen- 
tality Asbury University was put under the 
patronage of W. C. De Pauw — a scheme 
which has resulted in benefits simply incalcu- 
lable. Professor Ridpath's work as an author 
combines qualities which will as inevitably 
insure permanency as they have already led 
to marvelous popularity. His History of the 
United States and his Cyclopedia of Universal 
History are vast literary store-houses, replete 
with the well-arranged products of years of 
laborious research. He also wrote a valuable 
Life of Garfield, and assisted in the produc- 
tion of the new Peoples Cyclopedia. 

His intelligent and earnest devotion to the 
cause of Methodism has kept pace with in- 
creasing responsibilities and growing fame. 



REV. HENRY SCHUTZ. 

Rev. Henry Schutz, a highly esteemed and 
widely known delegate from the St. Louis Ger- 
man Conference, was born in Prussia, Ger- 
many, October 2, 1843, came to this country in 
his eighth year, and was reared by his parents 
in Peru, 111. 

When he was twelve years of age a Ger- 
man Methodist Sunday-school was organized 
by Dr. C. A. Loeber, and he was invited 
to it. A faithful teacher took him into 
his room and prayed with him, which made 
a profound impression on his young heart. 
On the occasion of his father's powerful con- 
version he was deeply awakened of God's 
Spirit, and soon thereafter was happily con- 
verted. He at once felt called to the ministry. 
In the fall of 1863 he was admitted into the 
Rock River Conference. By division of the 
German work in the Conference he became a 



member of the North-west German Conference, 
and was ordained deacon by Bishop Baker in 
1865, and elder by Bishop Simpson in 1867. 
In 1870 he was transferred to the South-west 
German Conference. He has held with great 
credit honorable posts of duty in his Confer- 
ences, and his ability is accorded universal 
recognition. At present he is Presiding Elder 
of Quincy District. 



REV. JAMES B. MIDDLETON. 

Rev. James B. Middleton, A.M., delegate 
from South Carolina Conference, was born in 
Charlestown, April 29, 1839. His education 
was acquired at common schools and Baker 
Theological Institute. After his conversion he 
labored zealously in Church work, filling the 
offices of teacher, trustee, and local preacher 
with great efficiency. After his entrance into 
the itinerant ranks his best energies were 
heartily employed in the pastorate. He was 
elected delegate to the General Conference of 
1872, and also to the Centennial Conference in 
1884. As secretary of the Aunual Conference, 
special agent of Freedmen's Aid Bureau for 
Marion County, and Financial Agent of Claf- 
lin University he has rendered varied, 
thorough, and valuable service. 

As a writer and lecturer he has proved his 
ability to deal with problems of pressing im- 
portance in the furtherance of our great mission. 



REV. LEWIS CURTS. 

Rev. Lewis Curts, of the Rock River Con- 
ference delegation, is the son of a clergyman, 
his father being a preacher among the United 
Brethren in Christ. He was born March 24, 
1847, in Hocking County, O., and he moved to 
Henry County, O., when he was six months 
old. From that time on, until sixteen years 
of age, he "grew up" in the woods along the 
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1863. Under the preaching of his father he 
was converted at the age of seventeen. He 
enlisted immediately thereafter as a private 
in Company F, 24th Iowa Volunteers, and 
served until the close of the war. After his 
return from the army he attended Cornell 
College, Iowa, graduating in 1869. He re- 
mained a member of the United Brethren 
Church from the time of his conversion until 
the winter of 1869-70, when he united with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Colfax, la., 
and was by that Church thrust into the min- 
istry. He received license March 6, 1870. 
He visited Illinois, and was at once picked up 
by Rev. J. H. More, Presiding Elder, and put 
to work as supply at Lodi, Rock River Con- 
ference. He joined that Conference in Octo- 
ber, 1870, and is still a useful and prominent 
member. He is now upon his third year as 
Presiding Elder of Dixon District. He was 
united in marriage to Miss Electa Bard well 
in 1871, and considers his marriage "the 
biggest success he ever had." He is a man 
of sterling worth, and fills with great accepta- 
bility the positions assigned him. 



REV. GEORGE E. HITE. 

Rev. George E. Hite, who leads the West 
Virginia Conference delegation, is one of the 
rising young men of his State, and is at 
present pastor of the church at Parkers- 
burg. He possesses remarkable ability as a 
preacher. He was born September 17, 
1851, at Guyandotte, W. Va. He was edu- 
cated in public and private schools in his 
native town, and in Marshall College at Hunt- 
ington. With a view to the practice of medi- 
cine, he took an optional course in college, 
making chemistry a specialty. He studied 
medicine two years, but at the time of his 
conversion (February, 1870) he changed his 
plans, and after deliberation he decided to 
enter the ministry. He was received into 
the West Virginia Conference in March, 1872. 



His first year's work was more than gratifying 
to his many friends, and he was himself as- 
sured he had made no mistake in the choice 
of his profession. He served as Presiding 
Elder on Wheeling District four years. He 
has reaped large results for the Church in the 
numerous positions he has held. As a recog- 
nition of Mr. Hite's scholastic attainments the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1887, conferred 
upon him the honorary degree of Master of 
Arts. He is a close student, and always goes 
into his pulpit with a fresh message for. his 
congregation, and therefore never fails to 
interest and instruct them. 



Rev. A. E. P. ALBERT, D.D. 

Rev. Aristides Elphonso Peter Albert, of 
Louisiana Conference, was born on a sugar 
plantation in St. Charles parish, thirty-five 
miles above New Orleans, La., December 10, 
1853. His father was Pierre Albert, Esq., 
a white man, native of Bordeaux, France, who 
owned a small farm adjoining the plantation 
above mentioned. His mother was a negress, 
and the slave property of Francois Bougere, 
Esq., also a Frenchman. She and some of 
her relatives had been willed free by her pre- 
vious master, a Spaniard, but she was seized 
for debts of this master after his death, and, 
though she could not be sold, was held to 
work out these debts, and only obtained her 
freedom by President Lincoln's proclamation. 
Mr. Albert was employed as overseer when 
he became the father of Aristides. 

In April, 1 863, he was one of a party who de- 
termined to gain their liberty by flight. After 
a tedious and dangerous journey, lasting all 
night, they reached the Union lines. They 
were captured, and much frightened, as they 
were unable to understand English, speaking 
French, or " Creole," instead. In 1864 he was 
taught by a negro, Mr. William Barner. He 
helped his mother wash, to earn the one dollar 
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a boy into the Mississippi River, and miracu- 
lously rescued by a policeman after it was 
thought lie had perished. He entered the 
Freedmen's Bureau School, at New Orleans, 
and later entered the La Harpe Street Church 
Public School. From 1872 to 1874 he studied 
in the Atlanta Congregational University and 
in Clark University of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. After this he studied in Straight 
Congregational University, New Orleans, and 
was graduated in 1881 with honors. His alma 
mater conferred the degree of D.D. upon him 
in 1885, and at the same time Rust University 
conferred the same honor. He entered the 
itinerancy January 13, 1878. He is a mem- 
ber of the Book Committee, and was promi- 
nently mentioned four years ago for Bishop 
to Africa. He is associated with many pub- 
lic institutions and temperance societies, is 
conversant with English and French, and 
lias a fair knowledge of other languages. On 
the death of Dr. Marshall W. Taylor he Avas 
unanimously elected Editor of the Sovth- 
ice-stem Christian Advocate, September 15, 
1887. 



Rev. HENRY DIETZ. 

Rev. Henry Dietz, of the Southern German 
Conference, was born in Groszensee, Saxe- 
Weimar, Germany, in the year 1845. His 
parents emigrated to America in 1855, and 
settled in Wisconsin, where they soon united 
with the German Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Here, from his tenth to his fifteenth year, he 
was attentive at Sunday-school and church 
services. In 1862, then only seventeen years 
of age, he enlisted in an Illinois regiment, and 
served three years under Sherman. In 1866 
he was converted at Milwaukee, Wis., and 
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 
1867 he entered the German Wallace College 
in Berea, O., where he remained three years. 
In June, 1870, he entered the North-west 
German Conference. Prior to the session 
of his Conference he served a charge under 



the elder. He did grand service in his Con- 
ference, and after a few years was transferred 
to the German work in Texas. His devoted 
and persistent work for six years w r as fully 
recognized by his Conference, and in 1879 he 
was by the Bishop appointed Presiding Elder 
of San Antonio District. After a full term of 
four years he was assigned to the Houston 
District. His record has been one of faithful 
and energetic work for the cause of Christ 
among the Germans, and many rise to call him 
blessed. 



RICHARD WATSON LYON, Esq. 

Richard Watson Lyon, lay delegate from 
Southern Illinois Conference, is the youngest 
son of James and Sarah Ann Lyon. Of a 
family of fourteen children, five sons and two 
daughters are still living. His father w r as 
born in Black Rock, N. Y., in 1789, and his 
mother, whose maiden name was Richardson, 
was born in Canada in 1792. They resided 
in Canada until 1834. His father was a 
Member of Parliament during the McKenzie 
troubles, and had to leave the country, and 
moved to Pennsylvania. Richard Watson, 
subject of this sketch, was born in Trumbull 
County, O., August 20, 1837. When he was 
four years of age his parents settled near 
Allegheny College, for the benefit of the 
children. His educational advantages w^ere 
confined to the district school, which closed 
on the death of his father. In the fall of 
1853 he moved with his mother and younger 
sister to Cleveland, O., where he began his 
business life as a clerk in a dry goods store. 
After recovering from an attack of cholera in 
that city, in 1854, he visited Canada, return- 
ing to settle in Pittsburg, Pa. In the spring of 
1857 he moved to Mount Vernon, 111., where 
he resided until 1864. He has been engaged 
as traveling boot and shoe salesman with few 
intermissions since 1866. His first wife was 
Miss Helena L. Hogue, and his second Miss 
Virginia W. House, who still presides over 




H. J. Brei i'er. 




Noble G. Miller. 




Isaac F. King. 





Georgk S.Chadkourne. 




E. W. S. Peck. 




W. R. R. Duncan. 




M. L. Gates. 




Gershom Lease. 




Thomas H. Murray. 




M. F. Ahgren. Geo. W. Hollinger. Silas Easterling. 

PLATE XI. 



hp 

Joseph Pullman. 





Benjamin St. J. Fry. 




A. C. Crosthwaite. 




A. J. Porter. 



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H. H. Jacoby. 



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his home, which consists of three children 
born to them. He has been a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church since 1857, and 
lias faithfully served in various important 
positions. He has served as steward, leader, 
class-leader, and Sunday-school superintend- 
ent. His mother was a sister of James 
Richardson, Bishop of the Methodist Church 
in Canada. His brother, Rev. John R. Lyon, 
and brother-in-law, Rev. L. D. Mix, were 
both members of the Erie Conference. 



GRAHAM BELL, ESQ. 

Graham Bell, lay delegate from Louisiana 
Conference, who is widely known as an organ- 
izer among his people, is a native of Missis- 
sippi ; his birthplace, near Vicksburg, Warren 
County; date of birth, May 1, 1845. He is a 
son of slave parents. His grandfather was an 
Indian, and his grandmother was of African 
descent. His parents were born in slavery 
in Virginia. When Graham was but three 
years of age his father died, and he was left 
in care of a pious mother, who inculcated 
religious impressions upon his tender heart. 
He was taught at his mother's knee the 
Lord's Prayer, and often heard her exclaim 
at the conclusion of her prayers, " O Lord, how 
long?" This aroused his curiosity to in- 
quire what she meant by such repeated 
exclamations. She said, "I mean how Ions' 
before deliverance comes." Little did she 
think that her prayers were reaching the 
throne of God, and that he would enjoy the 
benefit of her praers. Nineteen years after 
Graham's birth, God, by means of President 
Lincoln, emancipated the slaves. 

Since his seventh year he has lived in 
New Orleans, La. There he attended night 
school, normal school, and afterward in the 
New Orleans University. Having a family, 
he was compelled to give up his schooling, 
with limited education, that they might 
obtain support. He was baptized by Bishop 



McTyeire, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South, in Wesley Chapel, and was converted 
November 26, 1808, and joined First Street 
Church, of which he now is a member; has 
served in all official relations in the Church ; 
was ordained local deacon by Bishop Harris, 
and local elder by Bishop Bowman. He was 
sent out by the Freedmen's Bureau as public 
school teacher in 1868, but, he was given 
twenty-four hours to leave the parish, and the 
provost-marshal sent him back home. He 
"was afterward employed in the New Orleans 
Custom House, and has been Street Commis- 
sioner. He has been elected four successive 
times to the General Conference. 



GEORGE H. HAZZARD, ESQ. 

George Henry Hazzard, the only son of 
Henry O. and Elizabeth H. Hazzard, was born 
at Seaford, Del, December 5, 1846. When 
he was two years of age his parents removed 
to Laurel, Ind. His father died two years 
later, and before he was fourteen he had to 
face the battle of life. 

He engaged in various pursuits, in some of 
which his moral character was endangered, 
but the evil influences surrounding him were 
counteracted by the care and teachings of his 
mother and the gentle example of his sisters. 
At the age of nineteen he united with the 
Jackson Street Church, St. Paul, Minn., of 
which he has since been a leading member. 
On October 14, 1867, he was married to Miss 
Hannah E. Hoyt. After a residence of three 
years in Stillwater he returned to St. Paul, 
where, with his wife and children, he re- 
sides in a beautiful suburb near Lake Como. 
For some years he has been engaged in the 
real estate and loan business, in which he has 
met with gratifying success. 

Mr. Hazzard is pre-eminently a public- 
spirited man. He has held positions in the 
public service, but that he is not a seeker for 
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nominations for the House of Representatives 
and County Commissioner when nomination 
was almost a guarantee of election. He is the 
President of the Real Estate Board, a director 
of the Chamber of Commerce, and is secretary 
of the State Camp-meeting Association. He 
is a generous supporter of the Church, and 
his manly principles and sterling qualities 
have won for him the honor aud esteem of a 
very wide circle. He is a delegate from Min- 
nesota Conference. 



Rev. HARRY SWANN. 

Rev. Harry Swann is the ministerial del- 
egate from the West Texas Conference. His 
activities within the hounds of his Confer- 
ence have been especially notable, and his 
position has been attained by virtue of solid 
worth. He was born in Arkansas, March i», 
1854. At the age of nineteen he Avas hap- 
pily converted, and united with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. In 1875 he entered the 
West Texas Conference, and received his first 
appointment by Bishop Andrews. The ap- 
pointments he served were strengthened by 
his labors. Gracious revivals were often the 
result of his earnest efforts, and many united 
with the Church. He was instrumental in 
building a church on one of his charges, and 
at another charge (Wesley Chapel, Austin) 
he raised $9,000 toward completing a $20,000 
church. Here a revival occurred, where two 
hundred souls were brought to Christ and 
the Church by his godly etforts. He was ap- 
pointed three years ago as Presiding Elder of 
the San Antonio District, and is accomplish- 
ing an excellent work on the district. His elec- 
tion to the General Conference by his breth- 
ren was a deserved honor, which he fully 
appreciates. 



OLE B. JACOBS, ESQ. 

Ole B. Jacobs, whose biographical sketch 
is herewith presented, was born in Ilvidingso, 



Norway, December 25, 1831, and came to 
America in the spring of 1850, settling in 
the State of Illinois. In La Salle County, in 
that State, he worked for about two years on 
a farm, then removed to Chicago in 1852, 
where he commenced work as a laborer in a 
lumberyard. In 1852 he entered the employ 
of Messrs. Ryerson, Miller & Co., as a clerk, 
with a very moderate salary. He rose to high 
positions in the firm, and remained with them 
twenty-one years. After serving as salesman 
for one year, with Mr. J. A. B. Waldo, he 
entered the lumber business in his own name, 
in Chicago. Marked prosperity has been won 
by his business qualities and sterling integrity. 
He married Gurine Bringeland, November 
10, 1854. He w T as converted in the Lutheran 
Church, January 2, or 3, 1 8G0. He joined the 
First Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church 
in 1871, where he still retains his membership. 
In 1884 he was elected a reserve delegate to 
the General Conference. He has filled very 
important positions in the Church, as exhort- 
er, local preacher, Sunday-school superintend- 
ent, class-leader, and trustee, and holds the 
last four offices at present. He represents 
the Norwegian and Danish Conference. 



REV. JOHN S. TEVIS, D.D. 

Rev. John S. Tevis, D.D., of the South- 
east Indiana Conference, was born at Augusta, 
Ky v October 3, 1828. He is of a family of 
Methodist ministers. His father, Dr. Daniel 
H. Tevis, and two uncles were members of 
the Kentucky Conference when he was born. 
Rev. B. W. Tevis, of South-east Indiana Con- 
ference, is his son, and Rev. A. H. Tevis, 
D.D., of Kansas Conference, is his brother. 
His early education was such as the schools 
of forty-five and fifty years ago could give. 
He studied medicine and began its practice 
in 1850, but soon after was licensed to preach, 
and sent out upon a circuit. At the first ses- 
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the fall of 1852, lie was admitted into the 
traveling connection, and has filled every im- 
portant appointment in his Conference from 
circuit to district. He studied theology and 

lan^uao-es w hile in the saddle traveling cir- 
cs o o 

cuits. The degree of D.D. was conferred 
upon him by Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) 
University. He has been actively connected 
with the educational and moral development 
of Indiana for thirty-seven years, during 
which time he has never failed to answer at 
roll-call at Conference, or been hindered from 
active duty for a single week. He is among 
the most influential ministers of his State. 



REV. PAUL QUATTLANDER. 

Rev. Paul Quattlander, delegate from the 
East German Conference, is a native of 
Schwenningen, Wiirtemberg, Germany. He 
was born May 1, 1833. He graduated from 
the common school, and for three years at- 
tended a "Real-Schule," in which language, 
mathematics, and a little science and art were 
taught. In the fall of 1848 he came with 
his parents to this country. He was em- 
ployed in Charles C. Leigh's crockery-store 
in Bleecker Street, New York city, eight 
months, and for seventeen years in John 
Stephenson's car factory, superintending the 
ornamental department for fourteen years. 
He joined the East German Conference in 
1866. He united with the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church in 1850, and filled the positions 
of Sunday-school superintendent, class-leader, 
steward, trustee, exhorter, and local preacher. 
While employed for Mr. Stephenson he sup- 
plied various charges near New York city, 
and did acceptable service. As a member 
of the East German Conference he has sus- 
tained a prominent relation thereto, having 
filled the most important appointments within 
its bounds. He has been secretary of his 
Conference for the last four years, and was 



assistant secretary for seven years previous. 
He is now stationed at Second Street, New 
York. 



Rev. WILLIAM H. WEBSTER. 

Rev. William H. Webster, who leads the 
delegation from Illinois Conference, was born 
in Schoharie County, N. Y., in 1835. As his 
parents died before he was ten years of age, 
he was entirely thrown upon his own re- 
sources at a period when parental care and 
provision are of incalculable moment. By 
working at manual labor and teaching, he 
managed to push his way through school and 
college, and was graduated from Ohio Wes- 
leyan University in 1879. In the same year 
he joined the Illinois Conference, within the 
bounds of which his entire ministerial life 
has been spent. Of this body he is a prom- 
inent member, having filled most of its 
important appointments, and served in the 
capacity of presiding elder for many years. 
Important and critical problems have been 
referred to him for solution. He was called 
to preside in the Hoffman trial, the most 
noted that ever took place in the Illinois Con- 
ference. On two previous occasions he served 
as delegate to the General Conference, and 
in every instance has received a vote which 
testifies to the hearty and general esteem in 
which he is held. 



DAVID E. BEEM, ESQ. 

David E. Beem, who leads the lay delega- 
tion from the Indiana Conference, is a very 
popular and valued layman. He is just past 
fifty years of age, being burn on the 24th of 
June, 1837, at Spencer, Indiana. His parents 
were among the early pioneers of Indiana, 
his father settling in that Territory in 1810, 
and his mother in 1816. He entered the 
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student in 1856, and graduated in the regular 
classical course in 1860. Having adopted the 
legal profession, bis studies were interrupted 
by the Civil War. When the first call for 
troops was issued he enlisted as a Union sol- 
dier, on the 19th of April, 1861. He did val- 
iant service in the army continuously until 
June 20, 1864, the last two years as a Captain 
in the 14th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. He 
participated in many battles, including Rich 
Mountain, Cheat Mountain, Winchester, An- 
tietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Get- 
tysburg, etc., and was three times wounded. 
He married Miss Mahala Joslin, April 10, 
1862. He has been eminently successful in 
his profession, and has for eighteen years been 
managing member of the banking firm of 
Beem, Peden & Co., at Spencer, Ind. He is 
a prominent Republican, and served as del- 
egate in the Republican National Convention 
at Chicago in 1880. 



JESSE P. FARLEY, ESQ. 

Jesse P. Farley, lay delegate from Upper 
Iowa Conference, was born in Nashville, Tenn., 
April 2, 1813. His father, John Farley, Esq., 
with his family, emigrated to St. Louis, Mo., 
in 1817. Ten years later, on the death of his 
mother, in company with a married sister, lie 
removed to Galena, 111., where he found em- 
ployment in the lead mines. This was in 
1827, when he was but fourteen years of age. 
Since that time he has resided in Galena and 
Dubuque, la. The latter place he has made 
his home for fifty-one years. In October, 
1837, he united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Mr. Farley has led an active life, and has 
engaged in various pursuits, as lead miner, 
lead ore smelter, merchant, steamboat owner, 
and railroad president. He is now presi- 
dent of two incorporated manufacturing 
companies, which are in good condition and 
doing a prosperous business. Though at 



present engaged in litigation so important 
as to involve $4,000,000, he yet trusts to be 
able to attend the General Conference. He 
feels especially honored with the election to 
the position, and will do good service as a 
delegate. 



SAMUEL L. DWIGHT, ESQ. 

Samuel L. D wight, lay delegate from the 
Southern Illinois Conference, was born at 
Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, 111., March 
15, 1841. In boyhood he received a careful 
education in the common schools, concluding 
with one year at McKendree College. He 
served through several campaigns in the Civil 
War, and rose from the rank of private to 
that of captain of infantry. After his dis- 
charge he engaged in the study of law, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1868. His pro- 
fessional career has been one of steady and 
marked success. His ability as a speaker and 
practical man of business received recognition 
in his election to the lower house of the 
Twenty-seventh General Assembly of the 
State of Illinois. 

He united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Centralia, his present home, in 
1872. Since then he has served its interests, 
locally and generally, with zeal and accept- 
ance. 



Rev. JAMES M. WARDEN. 

Rev. James M. Warden, a native of Mar- 
shall County, W. Va., was born June 20, 1833, 
of Presbyterian parentage. In early life he 
devoted himself to farm life at home. The 
comparatively limited advantages of ordinary 
schools in the neighborhood, sustained by 
subscription, were sought for early educa- 
tion. When a young man he pursued a higher 
course of study, comprising languages, math- 
ematics, and sciences, at the West Alexander 
Academy, Washington County, Pa. When 
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Xehon, he was led to seek Christ. For six 
months he longed for the "Pearl of great 
price," and at last with joy obtained. In 
December, 1855, he united with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and the next year 
received local preachers license, serving two 
years as a supply. In 1859 he was received 
into the West Virginia Conference on trial, 
and ever since has done faithful and influential 
work, filling full terms in every charge, except 
when moved at the close of his second year 
to take the Charleston District, which he now 
serves with decided acceptability. His early 
ministerial life was spent in the Kanawha 
Valley, where, amid the trying scenes of the 
Civil War, he was exposed to hardships and 
dangers, and suffered the loss of property. 
He was ever true to his Church and loyal to 
his country. He is universally beloved. 

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ENOCH W. MOORE, M.D. 

Enoch W. Moore, M.D., Avas born near 
Waterloo, Monroe County, 111., December 7, 
1821, and had the benefits of Training in a 
Christian home. His father, Enoch Moore, 
and his mother, Mary Whiteside Moore, were 
among the very early Methodists of his native 
State. In the fall of 1838 he united with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at a camp- 
meeting held at the "Big Spring" camp- 
ground. He dates his conversion December 
6, 1838. For a period of over forty years he 
has been a member of the Quarterly Confer- 
ence. In the year 1846 he was licensed to 
preach, and at once took rank among the lead- 
ing local preachers of his Conference. He 
was ordained deacon by Bishop Ames in 
1852. In 18-19 he commenced the study of 
medicine, and was graduated from the Med- 
ical Department of the St. Louis Univer- 
sity, in March, 1853, and settled in Decatur, 
111., in March, 1856. Since that time he has 
resided in that place, where he holds, as he 
has for many years, a high and leading posi- 



tion among his medical brethren. He entered 
the Union Army as Surgeon of the 115th 
Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and 
served with distinction. Receiving an hon- 
orable discharge, he returned to his home, 
where he still practices with great success. 
He is a lay delegate from the Illinois Con- 
ference. 



Hon. WILL CUMBACK. 

Hon. Will Cumback, lay delegate from the 
South-east Indiana Conference, was born in 
Franklin County, Ind., March 24, 1829. His 
parents were of German and Scotch descent. 
To obtain his early education he had to grap- 
ple with difficulties, first, by the use of the 
scanty leisure afforded by the demands of 
farm life, and still later in procuring the cov- 
eted college course. With less than $15 in 
hand, he entered Miami University, and by 
economy and manual labor managed to secure 
a six months 1 course. In 1851 he married 
Miss Martha Hurlbut, a lady of culture, and 
two years subsequently s ttled in Greensburg, 
Ind., to begin the practice of the legal pro- 
fession, for which he had prepared himself. 
In 1854 he was elected to the Thirty -fourth 
Congress, and, though its youngest member, 
his power of debate raised him to fame. Dur- 
ing the Civil War he filled the position of 
paymaster of a district department with such 
satisfaction that he was offered the position 
for life. In 1865 he was elected to the State 
Senate, and duly chosen as its president. In 
this capacity he displayed rare courage and 
wisdom at a most critical juncture. Since 
then he has held several important public 
positions, and was appointed Minister to Por- 
tugal in 1870, but declined the honor. He 
stands in the front rank of laymen noted for 
service in the Church. At the General Con- 
ference of 1872 he was appointed one of the 
twelve general trustees of the Church. Twice 
he has been elected President of the State 
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ber of the General Conference of 1876, and 
lay delegate in 1878 to the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, South. 

As a popular lecturer his reputation is high, 
and extends itself through some thirty States 
of the Union. 



REV. JAMES W. MCNEILL. 

Rev. James W. McNeill, ministerial del- 
egate from the Central Tennessee Conference, 
was born in Davidson County, Tenn., Novem- 
ber 1, 1846. He is the youngest of twelve 
children, and was blessed with godly parents, 
who were among the first Methodist families 
in that part of the State. During his infancy 
the family removed to Illinois, where he 
attended the common schools, in which he 
was noted for his intense quickness and indus- 
try in the pursuit of knowledge. He was 
converted in early life, and at once bent his 
energies in efforts to do good. His admission 
to the itinerancy took place at the session of 
the Tennessee Conference held at Nashville 
in 1875, and since that time he has toiled 
with great vigor and success on several of its 
charges. He is at present pastor of the First 
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Tullahoma, 
Tenn., and is greatly esteemed both for his 
work's sake and for many excellent qualities 
of head and heart. 



Rev. PORTER C. JOHNSON. 

Rev. Porter C. Johnson, delegate from the 
West Nebraska Conference, was born in July, 
1836, in a part of Long Island now included 
in South Brooklyn. ' His early boyhood was 
spent in the city of New York. Losing his 
mother when he was but ten years of age, he 
was sent to New Jersey to place him " out of 
the reach of bad company." He entered the 
army in 1861, and was discharged fourteen 
months later on account of wounds received 
in the seven days 1 fight before Richmond. His 



conversion took place at Bernardsville, N. J., 
in November, 1858. He was licensed exhorter 
and local preacher by Rev. Noah Edwards and 
Rev. Jefferson Lewis, Presiding Elder, and in 
1867 joined New Jersey Conference on trial. 
He was ordained deacon by Bishop Simpson, 
and elder by Bishop Ames. In 1876 he was 
transferred to Nebraska by Bishop Simpson, 
and stationed at Tecumseh, Neb., and 
when the West Nebraska Conference was or- 
ganized by Bishop Andrews in 1875 he be- 
came a member of it. Since then he has 
served several of its more important charges, 
and traveled and toiled extensively during 
the five years through which he has filled the 
office of Presiding Elder. Under his pains- 
taking leadership, the churches have secured 
a gratifying measure of prosperity. Founda- 
tions have been so well and amply laid that 
the present success is but a prophecy and 
pledge of yet greater things. 

Mr. Johnson has the distinction of being 
the first ministerial delegate from this new 
and promising Conference. 



REV. EDWARD W. S. PECK, D.D. 

Rev. Edward Waters Steward Peck, D.D., 
delegate from the Washington Conference, 
was born in Baltimore, Md., October 31, 1843. 
His parents were Rev. Nathaniel and Lydia 
Peck, and he is the youngest of eleven chil- 
dren. Both father and mother were as noted 
for piety as for loyal adherence to the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. His mother was 
owned as a slave by Lawyer Emory of Balti- 
more, by whom she was treated as if of his 
own race. At her marriage he bestowed on 
her her freedom. Edward attended a free 
school in Baltimore taught by Rev. Harrison 
Webb, and made o-ood use of the facilities 
there afforded. He was converted in 1860, 
and entered Ashmun Institute (now Lincoln 
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in infancy. In 1863 he was licensed to 
preach, received into the Washington Confer- 
ence on trial in 1865, and appointed to 
Norfolk, Va., where he organized our Church. 
He was transferred to the Missouri and Ar- 
kansas Conference in 1867, and appointed" to 
Wesley Chapel, St. Louis. During his pastor- 
ate here he studied assiduously under the Rev. 
B. F. Crary, D.D., a foremost Greek and 
Hebrew scholar. As Presiding Elder of Mis- 
souri District he had under his care all the 
colored charges within the St. Louis Confer- 
ence, and did much during his term of office 
to consolidate and extend the work through 
that wide region. He has also been Presid- 
ins: Elder of the North Missouri and Balti- 
more Districts, pastor of St. Mark's, New York, 
and of Sharp Street and Asbury Churches in 
Baltimore. His Conference has from time to 
time intrusted him with responsible official 
positions. He has filled its secretaryship for 
four years, been delegate to the General Con- 
ference of the African Methodist Episcopal 
Zion Church in 1876, delegate to the Ecumen- 
ical Conference in London in 1881, and to the 
Centennial Conference in 1884. He was also 
a delegate to the last General Conference. 
In every position he has creditably measured 
up to a high standard, and rendered service 
of the greatest importance to our cause. 



GEN. SAMUEL H. HURST. 

General Samuel H. Hurst, lay delegate from 
Ohio Conference, was born in Ross County, O., 
in 1831. His parents were devoted Method- 
ists. His first twenty years were spent on a 
farm, after which he entered the University 
at Delaware. By teaching and other work he 
maintained himself at school, and completed 
a course of study in 1854. He continued to 
teach, at the same time studying law, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1860 he was 
elected Probate Judge of Ross County, but 
resigned the judgeship a year later to enter 



the army as Captain of the 73d Ohio Regi- 
ment. He served with distinction in the 
armies of Virginia and the Potomac, partici- 
pating in the battles of second Bull Run, Chan- 
cel lorsville, and Gettysburg. Going West he 
fought at Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, 
and still later in the Atlantic campaign, the 
march to the sea, and the campaign of the 
Carolinas. He was wounded at New Hope 
Church, and twice brevetted for gallant con- 
duct. Since the close of the war he has been 
engaged in fruit-farming at Chillicothe, O., 
and filled many important civil positions. 
He is at present Director-General of the Ohio 
Centennial Exposition. 

General Hurst joined the Methodist Church 
in 1849, and has been greatly noted for his 
zealous and faithful toil in temperance and 
Sunday-school work. 



REV. ROBERT W. C. FARNSWORTH. 

Rev. Robert W. C. Farnsworth, A.M., who 
was in September last elected delegate to the 
General Conference by his brethren of the 
Southern California Conference, has since com- 
pleted his mortal career, and been promoted 
to higher service and more enduring honors 
in the General Assembly above. As a further 
tribute to saintly and sainted worth the fol- 
lowing brief views of what he was and what 
he did are here inserted. He was born at 
Haverhill, N. H., February 20, 1844. During 
service in the Civil War he received promo- 
tion to the rank of Captain. His education 
was acquired in Wesleyan Universit}^ and 
Boston School of Theology. After entering 
the ministry and serving some charges in the 
Providence Conference, declining health com- 
pelled him to move to the more genial clime 
of California. His work there both in the 
pastorate and Presiding Eldership was 
marked by consuming zeal and fidelity, and 
rewarded with general and unprecedented 
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with hallowed toils. He established and 
edited the Southern California Quarterly, and 
interested himself deeply in the foundation of 
colleges and seminaries. He had the first 
conversation with Senator Maclay relative to 
the founding of the Maclay School of The- 
ology. Of this institution he was elected 
Dean and Professor of Practical Theology in 
August, 1887. His term of service seemed 
strangely brief. The health at best frail and 
precarious gradually ebbed away, until on the 
5th of January, 1888, the sympathetic friend, 
the faithful pastor, the wise administrator, 
and the gifted Dean peacefully fell asleep in 
Jesus. His name will be held in affectionate 
and perpetual remembrance. 



Rev. W1LM0T WHITFIELD. 

Rev. Wilmot Whitfield, delegate from 
the North-west Iowa Conference, passed 
through the discipline of youthful familiarity 
with hardship. At the early age of thirteen 
he was obliged to start on his career without 
friends, money, or education. By working 
days and studying nights he made such prog- 
ress that in three years 1 time he w T as enabled 
to begin the study of medicine. He was duly 
graduated and followed the practice of the 
profession till thirty-two years of age, when 
he entered the ministry in North-west Iowa 
Conference, September, 1872. After serving 
on the Lake City and Storm Lake circuits, 
and in the church at Sioux City, he spent 
thirteen months in Europe, Egypt, and Pales- 
tine. In 1879 he was appointed Presid- 
ing Elder of Dakota District, on which he 
spent a full term. Since that time he has 
served a year as pastor of First Church, Sioux 
City, and four years as Presiding Elder of the 
Sioux City District. He was married in 1868 
to Miss Isabel Glass, of Clayton County, la. 
Taking up the study of medicine, his wife was 
graduated from the State University, and 
practiced for some time at Cedar Rapids. To 



more fully aid her husband in his ministry 
she relinquished her profession, and to her 
unceasing devotion much of his success is due. 
Mr, Whitfield's grandfather was a first cousin 
of the celebrated Rev. George Whitefield, and 
was a popular actor in the Royal DruryLane 
Theater, London, England. 



REV. ELVERO G. PERSONS, LL.B. 

Rev. Elvero G. Persons, delegate from the 
North Ohio Conference, was born in Jefferson 
County, N. Y., March 3, 1 842. His youth was 
passed in Michigan and Ohio. While yet in 
boyhood he was converted, and joined the 
Baptist Church. The best part of his early 
education was acquired at Adrian College. 
Enlisting in 1862, he served as Captain and 
staff-officer, and was " Judge Advocate of the 
Department of Tennessee" when the war 
closed. Though at the front in 1864, Adrian 
College conferred on him the degree of A.B. 
He was graduated from the University of 
Michigan in 1868 with the degree of LL.B., 
having practiced law for some time previously. 
He also received the degree of M.A. from the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. On the recom- 
mendation of Chancellor E. O. Haven he was 
licensed to preach by Dr. Gardner, ordained 
deacon by Bishop Morris in 1870, and elder 
by Bishop Simpson in 1872. His work in 
the pastorate has been highly successful, and 
not less so during the full term in which he 
served as Presiding Elder. He is at present 
and for the second time pastor of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in Norwalk, O. 



Hon. D. WILLIAM DIGGS. 

Hon. D. William Diggs, lay delegate from 
Dakota Conference, filled highly responsible 
positions and gained for himself an excellent 
record prior to his removal to Dakota in 1879. 
He served in the 9th New York Militia, and 




S. \V. Thomas. 



W. S. Urmy. 




S. L. Roberts. 



C. C. Gavek. 





C. A. C. Achard. 





John B. Storm. 







E. E. Bentley. 





Harry H. Green. 




George N. Power. 




G. E. Hue. 



J. I. Boswell. 



Enoch Holdstock. 



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was discharged in 1863 with the rank of 
Major. As the efficient superintendent of 
St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school 
in New York, as well as an active member of 
the Board of Managers of the Bible Society, 
and for ten years a member of the Board of 
Managers of the New York City Church Ex- 
tension and Missionary Society, he wielded 
great influence and rendered service perma- 
nently valuable and memorable. 

His career has been marked by growing 
zeal and liberality in his present sphere. 
Through his instrumentality a handsome and 
costly church edifice was erected in Milbank, 
Dakota. Of the prosperous Sunday-school 
connected with this church he is superintend- 
ent. His managing ability and success in 
this line have received fitting recognition. 
He has been chairman of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Dakota Sunday-school Associa- 
tion since 1884, and is now serving for a 
second term on the Executive Committee of 
the International Sunday-school Association. 
Without his own knowledge he was nomi- 
nated for State Treasurer under the Sioux 
Falls Constitution, and elected by the largest 
vote then cast. 



REV. FRANK J. BELCHER. 

Rev. Frank J. Belcher, of the New York 
Conference, was born in Ancram, Columbia 
County, N. Y., October 13, 1851. By the 
loss of his father by death, when he was but 
thirteen years of age, he was compelled to 
take care of himself and support a mother 
and younger sister. His educational advan- 
tages have been those of the common schools 
and Claverack College and Hudson River 
Institute. His natural qualities are decidedly 
marked, and native worth combined with 
studiousness have secured for him a wide 
recognition. For three years he taught 
school, and won the esteem of all under his 
care. He united with the New York Con- 
ference in April, 1875. 
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Mr. Belcher combines many excellent char- 
acteristics. He is intellectual, judicious, and 
astute. The kindliness of his nature and his 
extreme modesty render him exceedingly pop- 
ular. He also possesses nerve, and is equal to 
emergencies. The business qualities which 
were exhibited when in charge, in his early 
ministry, of the Canaan camp-grounds led 
his brethren to recognize him as a man of more 
than ordinary skill in such department*. He- 
is closing his fourth year as Presiding Elder, 
having the universal esteem of the churches 
and pastors under his charge. His elevation 
to important positions in the Church, while 
but a few years in his Conference, have been 
fully justified by his excellent record. 



Gen. CLINTON B. FISK. 

Clinton B. Fisk, well known as Major- 
General Fisk, is one of the most distinguished 
and accomplished laymen of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and is as widely known 
and as universally beloved as any lay repre- 
sentative in the present General Conference. 
Of a superior type of New England ancestry, 
he has inherited rare physical and moral 
characteristics. His earliest American pro- 
genitor emigrated from the Dano-Saxon 
County of Lincoln, England, about 1700. Mi-. 
Fisk was born in the town of York, Livingston 
County, N. Y., on the 8th of December, 1828. 
It is recorded of his great-grandfather that, 
true to the patriotic and military instincts of 
his forefathers, he entered the Revolutionary 
army under General Washington, and served 
with great efficiency, rising to the rank of 
Major-General. Wilbur Fisk, the profound 
theologian, and one of the most honored 
names in American Methodism, was a first 
cousin of Benjamin B., the father of Clinton 
B. Fisk. The latter was the fifth of a family 
of six sons. His father removed to Michigan 
in 1830, and established the town of Clinton, 
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Clinton, and his son. His father dying in the 
prime of life, the boy was compelled to meet 
with struggles and hardships amid primitive 
surroundings. Such training, however, pro- 
duced sturdy and resolute manhood. At nine 
years of age he was converted to God, and re- 
ceived into the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He was educated in the common schools until 
sixteen years of age, when he entered Albion 
Wesley an Seminary, and there prepared to 
enter the Sophomore Class of Michigan Uni- 
versity. His health failed, and a collegiate 
course was perforce abandoned. He engaged 
in a country store, mill, and bank at Cold 
Water, Mich. He married Jeannette A. Crip- 
pen, 20th of February, 1850. He was admit- 
ted into the firm of his employers, Messrs. L. 
1). Crippen & Co., about this time. With 
sterling, patriotic impulses, he entered the 
army in 1861, and rose with multiplied and 
distinguished honors, in view of his marked 
qualifications and successes, to the rank of 
Brevet Major-General. He raised a brigade 
of troops, and commanded a division of the 
Army of the Tennessee at the memorable siege 
of Vicksburg. He was also successful in de- 
feating Rice's attempt to capture Jefferson 
City, at which time he commanded the mili- 
tary districts of Missouri and North Missouri. 

Resi^nino; his commission at the close of the 
war, he found that Mr. Lincoln was unwilling 
to dispense with his services. The President 
called him to Washington, and assigned 
him to duty in Kentucky and Tennessee. He 
won the universal praise of the country for 
his important w 7 ork as Commissioner of the 
Freedmen's Bureau for all the Central South. 
Here in the exercise of his functions he 
wrought the noblest work of his successful 
life. Pacification and reconstruction, social 
order and industry, together with good fel- 
lowship, were established. 

His career in the Methodist Church has 
been identified with all the great educational, 
church extension, missionary, Book Concern, 
and other movements, and a record of his use- 



fulness in these departments would fill a 
volume. He was the founder of Flsk Univer- 
sity, of Nashville, Tenn. His love for the 
Indian has given him a high place in the 
Board of Indian Commissioners. He is a pro- 
nounced Prohibitionist, and in 1886 received 
a large vote for the Governorship of the State 
of New Jersey. In the counsels of the Prohibi- 
tion Party no man commands a larger follow- 
ing. As a friend of the poor he is universally 
beloved. He is one of the most admirable 
platform speakers in the land, having a rare 
command of language and a rich store of 
illustration. 



Rev. CALVIN PICKETT. 

Rev. Calvin Pickett, delegate from the 
Tennessee Conference, stands out prominently 
in the present assembly as a striking - instance 
of what may be attained and achieved after 
painful experience of the unrelenting exac- 
tions of slavery. At his birth in Huntsville, 
Ala., August 4, 1825, he became the property 
of Archer Greyer. When eighteen months old 
he was sold to Jonathan Pickett, with whom he 
resided in Carthage, Tenn.. till 1834. His 
master dying at this juncture, he was placed 
upon the block annually and hired out to the 
best bidder. In 1840 and 1841 Rev. John J. 
Burnett, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
hired him, and from his children he first 
learned to read and write. His last owner 
was E. B. Pickett, Esq., now of St. Louis, Mo., 
who inherited him on his own arrival at ma- 
turity. Mr. Pickett's conversion and union 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 
took place in 1851, and in the next year he 
received a license to preach. After much faith- 
ful service under the auspices of that branch 
of the Church, he joined the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church in 1866, was ordained deacon by 
Bishop Clark, and elder by Bishop Simpson, 
at Huntingdon, in 1870. The brave qualities 
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rich fruit throughout his laborious ministry. 
Combining characteristic tact with singleness 
of aim, he happily avoided bringing trouble 
upon himself or others, and was never sum- 
moned even as a witness to any court of law. 
He was married in 1817, and one by one his 
children were sold and carried to Texas be- 
fore the outbreak of the Civil War. After 
its close General Fisk succeeded in procuring 
their release and restoration to him and free- 
dom. His wife died in 1870. He made the 
acquaintance of his second wife when she was 
fourteen years of age, secured an education for 
her at Central Tennessee College, and with her 
companionship and aid started with renewed 
vigor in the path of usefulness, to shine more 
and more even to the perfect day. 



REV. JOHN F. CROUCH. 

Rev. John Fletcher Crouch, of Philadelphia 
Conference, is of English extraction. His 
grandparents were born in England, but came 
to this country with their ancestors in the 
middle of the last century. His parents were 
natives of Maryland, and devoted members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was 
born at Dover, Del., December 20, 1835, 
and was converted when in his thirteenth year. 
He made the best use of such educational ad- 
vantages as were afforded by common schools 
and the town academy. For several years he 
toiled in his father's shop as a mechanic, but 
on attaining his majority devoted himself to 
the study of medicine, and took a full course 
in college. The action of the St. Paul's 
Methodist Episcopal Church relative to his li- 
cense to preach in 1859 proved a turning- 
point in his career, and that same year marked 
his reception into the Philadelphia Confer- 
ence. Most of his twenty-six years in the pas- 
toratehave been spent on its important charges, 
while he has not been destitute of official toils 
and honors. He has served on several of the 
Conference boards, and for ten years acted 



as Secretary of its Preachers' Aid Society. 
He is now completing a full term as Presid- 
ing Elder of the West Philadelphia District, 
and in every position has efficiently promoted 
the interests intrusted to his care. 



Rev. HOMER H. MOORE. 

Rev. Homer H. Moore, who fur the third 
time represents the Erie Conference in the 
General Conference, Avas born at Mantua, O., 
March 10, 1820. He was converted in his 
seventeenth year, and after spending eight 
years in academic studies and in teaching en- 
tered the Erie Conference in 1846. In 1857 
he went to Kansas to struggle for its freedom, 
and on the outbreak of the Civil War became 
Chaplain of the 3d Kansas Regiment. He 
assisted in the organization of the 34th Col- 
ored Regiment, was on the staff of General 
Foster, and acted as Superintendent of Edu- 
cation for Florida. Re-entering the Erie Con- 
ference, he, in 1867, became instrumental in 
securing the present Chautauqua Assembly 
grounds. From the beginning he has been a 
Chautauqua trustee and member of the 
Daily Herald staff. As a lecturer at the 
annual Assemblies he has gained large popular- 
ity by his lucid and able treatment of recondite 
themes of pressing importance. In 1880 he 
published a story of Life at Chautauqua, 
which rapidly ran through its first edition. 
He has also won a high place by his volume 
on Matter, Life, and Mind, and has another 
important work now in press. His min- 
istry of forty-two years has been full of glad- 
dening results affecting all departments of the 
charges he has served. 



REV. SAMUEL F. UPHAM, D.D. 

Rev. Samuel Foster Up ham, D.D., first 
delegate from New England Conference, is 
descended from a ministerial line. His father, 



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the Rev. Frederick Upham, D.D., now a super- 
annuated member of the New England South- 
ern Conference, held an effective relation for 
sixty-three years. On his mother's side he is 
directly connected with the Rev. Richard 
Bourne, one of the most prominent Puritan 
ministers of New England, while two of his 
own sons keep up the succession as ministers 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a 
native of Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., 
and was born May 19, 1834. He was con- 
verted, and united with the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, at an early age. While pursu- 
ing his studies in Wesleyan University he 
was associated with Bishops Warren, Mal- 
lalieu, and Ninde, and President C. H. Payne. 
Pie was graduated, and united with the New 
England Southern Conference in 1856. From 
this he was transferred to the New England 
Conference in 1864. During his continuance 
in the pastorate he filled the best appoint- 
ments in his Conference, till in December, 
1880, he was called to his present position as 
Professor of Practical Theology in Drew Sem- 
inary. He efficiently represented our Church 
at the General Conference of the Methodist 
Church of Canada in 1878, and was a mem- 
ber of the General Conference of 1880. He 
was honored with the degree of D.D. in 1872, 
and is known to a wide circle for his scholar- 
ship, ability, and success. 



Rev. JAMES C00TE. 

Rev. James Coote, B. A., who leads the dele- 
gation of Northern New York Conference, is 
a native of County Cavan, Ireland, where 
he was born thirty-nine years ago. For three 
generations his family has been devotedly 
loyal to Wesleyan Methodism there, while his 
father filled the office of local preacher for a 
period of sixty years. He was converted in 
his father's house when but twelve years of 
age, and displayed such zeal and aptitude that 
he was <; planned " as local preacher three 



years subsequently. His education was at 
once ample and thorough. After entering 
the itinerancy he spent five years in the Irish 
Conference, withdrawing from it in 1873 to 
enter the ranks here. Three days after his 
arrival in this country he received an appoint- 
ment as "supply" from Bishop Peck, and in 
1874 became a member of his present Con- 
ference. After acting as its assistant secretary 
for ten years, and serving several leading 
charges, he was appointed Presiding Elder in 
1885. Under his labors church membership 
has shown a steady increase and large debts 
disappeared. He received a highly gratifying 
vote for General Conference on the first 
ballot. 



Rev. NICHOLAS M. BROWNE. 

Rev. Nicholas Manly Browne, delegate 
from Wilmington Conference, inherits the 
advantages of a Scotch-Irish ancestry. His 
father was born in County Down, Ireland, in 
1784, and came with his parents to this coun- 
try when seven years of age. His own birth 
took place in Maryland, September 16, 1837. 
At the age of sixteen he was converted, and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
His father intended him for the medical pro- 
fession, but in obedience to a higher call he 
resolved to enter the ministry. He was edu- 
cated chiefly in the Biblical Institute at Con- 
cord, N. H., where he took a three years' 
course, including Hebrew. Upon his gradu- 
ation, in 1859, he was assigned to the charge 
of a church at Holmesburg, Pa., and duly 
received into the Philadelphia Conference. 
In February, 1866, he married Miss Cook, 
daughter of the Hon. Clinton Cook, a promi- 
nent lawyer of Centreville, Md. The next 
nine years were spent in the pastorate, until, 
in 1875, he was appointed Presiding Elder of 
Salisbury District. It was a critical period 
in the history of our Church in that region, 
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the tide of depression and bringing about a 
new era of prosperity. Since the close of his 
term in the eldership he has served a few of 
the most important charges in his Conference, 
and is at present pastor of our church in 
Newark, Del. His election to General Con- 
ference was a fitting tribute to his arduous 
and faithful service. 



Rev. JOHN H. L0CKW00D. 

Rev. John H. Lockwood, delegate from 
North-west Kansas, is a native of Philadel- 
phia, Pa., and was born March 10, 1837. 
Ere he had reached his twentieth j'ear he 
had passed through that strait gate upon 
which all subsequent usefulness and maturity 
of character hinge. After uniting with the 
Church he availed himself of the educational 
advantages offered by Episcopal Academy, 
Philadelphia, and McKendree College, Leba- 
non. In 1858 he entered the ministry in 
Southern Illinois Conference. For three years 
he acted as chaplain to the 49th Illinois Vol- 
unteer Infantry. He served many important 
charges within this Conference prior to his 
tran-fer to Kansas, which took place in 1872. 
His career since then has been replete with 
advantage to the Church and community. He 
was one of the founders and first president of 
the Board of Trustees of Kansas Wesleyan 
University, and was for several years presi- 
dent of the North-west Kansas Temperance 
Union, one of the forces which conspired to 
lift the State into a high social plane. He 
was delegate to the General Conference of 
1884, and is at present Presiding Elder of the 
Salina District. 



Rev. MANLEY S. HARD. 

Rev. Manley S. Hard, one of the Wyoming 
Conference delegates, is the son of an honored 
member of the Genesee Conference, and at 



present is but forty-six years old. He was 
converted when eight years of age, and after 
a thorough preparatory course entered Gene- 
see College. From this institution he was 
graduated in 1863. Since entering the pas- 
torate he lias served on the following charges: 
Ilion, Syracuse, Ithaca, and Elmira ; and has 
been Presiding Elder of the Elmira District. 
For several years he ably filled the office of 
secretary of Central New York Conference, 
and in 1884 was delegate to the General Con- 
ference and one of its secretaries. He was 
transferred to Wyoming Conference in 1885 
and appointed to his present charge, Centenary 
Church, Binghamton, N. Y. The year after 
his transfer he was elected secretary of his 
Conference, a position which he still retains. 
His ability and experience have been recog- 
nized outside Conference limits. He has 
served as trustee of Ezra Cornell Library, 
Ithaca, N. Y., trustee of the " New York 
State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-minded 
Women," and president of Syracuse Univer- 
sity Alumni Association. 



REV. JAMES M. KING, D.D. 

Rev. James M. King, D.D., who leads the 
delegation from New York Conference, stands 
connected by lineage with the early days of 
American Methodism. His father, the Rev. 
Elijah King, was ordained by Bishop Asbuiy, 
and was a conspicuous sharer in the toils and 
triumphs of those historic times. Dr. King 
was born in Girard, Pa., March 18, 1839. His 
primary studies were conducted at Newbury 
Seminary, Vt., and Fort Plain and Fort 
Edward Seminaries, N. Y. After a thorough 
course in Wesleyan University he was grad- 
uated with distinction from that institution in 
1862. For six years subsequently he held the 
position of Professor of Natural Science in the 
Collegiate Institute at Fort Edward. He en- 
tered the ranks of the ministry as a member 
of Troy Conference in the year 1868, and 



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during his connection with that body served 
at North Second Street, Troy, and Saratoga 
Springs, erecting a large and costly church 
edifice at the Litter place. Since his transfer 
to the New York Conference, in 1873, he has 
had successful pastorates in Washington 
Square, St. James, Eighteenth Street, and 
Park Avenue churches, and has recently com- 
menced his sixth prominent pastorate in this 
city at St. Andrews. The extensive revivals 
and increased general prosperity which have 
attended his ministry are among the promi- 
nent features of his unqualified success. In 
able platform utterances and earnest toil for 
the promotion of benevolent enterprises his 
fame has flown outside denominational limits. 
He was delegate to the Ecumenical Confer- 
ence in London in 1881, to the Centennial 
Conference in Baltimore in 1884, and to the 
General Conference in Philadelphia the same 
year. His alma mater conferred on him the 
degree of D.D. in 1876. The distinguished 
services he has rendered under the auspices 
of the American Bible Society and the United 
States Evangelical Alliance increase and en- 
hance the work he has done for Methodism. 



Rev. MARTIN L. GANOE. 

Rev. Martin L. Ganoe, delegate from the 
Central Pennsylvania Conference, was born 
in Huntingdon County, Pa., in 1843. His 
parents were devoted Methodists, and spared 
no pains in his careful training and prelimi- 
nary studies. At the age of sixteen he was con- 
verted, and thenceforth started to live not for 
himself but others. In 1862 he entered the 
volunteer service, and for a period of three 
years continued with the Army of the Poto- 
mac. After the close of the war he spent 
five years in mercantile pursuits, which he 
abandoned in 1870 for the purpose of enter- 
ing the ministry. He was admitted at that 
date to the Central Pennsylvania Conference, 
within the bounds of which he has since la- 



bored with distinction and success. After 
serving a number of its prominent charges in 
the pastorate he was appointed presiding 
elder in 1886. The high esteem in which he 
is held by his brethren was well attested by 
his election as first delegate with a very decid- 
ed vote. 



Rev. WILLIAM H. OLIN, D.D. 

Rev. William H. Olin, D.D., first ministerial 
delegate from Wyoming Conference, is a na- 
tive of the State of New York, having been 
born at Lawrence, Otsego County, January 
5, 1821. From the common schools of the 
village and Cazenovia Seminary he obtained 
his early education. After studying law in 
the offices of E. Cooke, in Oneonta, N. Y., and 
Hon. W. J. Hough, at Cazenovia, he was 
admitted to the Supreme Court of the State 
of New York, July 12, 1844, and practiced 
law at Oneonta till Jul)-, 1851. He was con- 
verted in 1849, and at once united with the 
Church at Oneonta. In 1851 he was admitted 
to the Oneida Conference, and stationed at 
Deansville. He has been effective ever since, 
and has spent twenty-two years in the pas- 
torate and fifteen as presiding elder. His 
first election to the General Conference took 
place in 1860, and he has had the privilege 
of election to every succeeding General Con- 
ference, with the further distinction of leading 
his delegation in 1880, 1884, and 1888. For 
two terms he was pastor of Centenary Church, 
Binffhamton, and during the last was elected 
Representative to the State Legislature from 
Broome County. He served in this capacity 
for 1884 and 1885, and introduced a resolu- 
tion to amend the Constitution of the State 
by prohibiting the sale of intoxicants. After 
closing a full term as Presiding Elder of the 
Binghamton he was lately appointed to the 
Oneonta District. For many years he acted 
as trustee of Cazenovia Seminary, was trustee 
of Wyoming Conference Seminary for seven 
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Ill 



sity. Wesleyan University conferred on him 
the degree of A.M., and Syracuse that of D.D., 
thus marking their sense of his ability and 
scholarship. While the Church has in many 
ways attested its appreciation of a life so full 
of eminent and fait hful toil, he delights to he 
known chiefly as " W. H. Olin, a servant of 
Jesus Christ." 



GEORGE W. HOLLINGER, ESQ. 

George W. Hollinger, the first lay delegate 
from Washington Conference, was born in 
1850, at Wheeling, West Virginia. His 
mother was a member of the Church for over 
fifty years, and through her fostering care he 
was early led to Christ. She was bought from 
slavery by her husband, who was himself 
born free, and by persevering industry they 
succeeded in bringing up a large family. Mr. 
Hollinger received his education at Mt. Pleas- 
ant, O., which has been supplemented by fur- 
ther careful study. For the past eighteen 
years he has served the Church in the 
varied capacities of trustee, class-leader, and 
local preacher. He is now local deacon and 
wields a large and elevating influence in his 
community. 



REV. MARION M. BOVARD, D.D. 

Rev. Marion M. Bovard, A.M.. D.D., who 
fills the place of first delegate from Southern 
California Conference, vacated by the death 
of the lamented Dean Farns worth, was born 
in Scott County, Ind., January 11, 1847. He 
was the second eldest of a family of twelve 
children, the means for whose support had to 
be extracted from the resources of a small 
farm. This created the necessity for plenty 
of physical exercise, not the least important 
advantage of which was the development of 
a strong constitution. He commenced teach- 
ing at sixteen, and after two years took up 
the study of medicine, which he pursued for 
three years in the Ohio Medical College. In 



obedience to his call to the ministry he aban- 
doned the chosen pathway, entered Asbury 
University, and was graduated in 1873. 
About this time he married Miss Jennie 
Allen, a class-mate in the university, and 
opened a ministerial career in California which 
now numbers fifteen years of service. For the 
past eight years he has so worthily filled the 
position of President of the University of 
Southern California that under his energetic 
management it has grown to be one of our 
most prosperous and promising institutions, 
with an endowment of $3,500,000 and an 
attendance of five hundred students. His 
alma mater conferred on him the degree of 
D.D. in 1887, while his reputation as a 
scholar and efficient worker transcends local 
limits. 



Rev. JONAS 0. PECK, D.D. 

This distinguished revivalist, pastor, and 
lecturer, who is a delegate from the New 
York East Conference, was born at Groton, 
Vt., September 4, 1836. Conspicuous among 
the factors which operated to fit him for his 
high mission were careful training by pious 
parents, thorough conversion when in his 
twentieth year, and a liberal education ac- 
quired through romantic faith and bravery. 
When eight years of age he was bereft of his 
saintly mother. Without friends and money 
he worked his way through Newbury Acad- 
emy, and entered Amherst College in 1859, 
having in all twenty dollars, while his first 
bill of books amounted to tWenty-one dollars. 
In this way he was provided with one of the 
conditions of high thinking. He was grad- 
uated in July, 1862, taking a prize in oratory. 
He entered New England Conference in 1860 
as pastor at North Amherst, and has since 
then served the following charges : Mt. Bel- 
lingham, Chelsea; Lowell; Worcester ; Spring- 
field ; Centenary, Chicago ; Mt. Vernon, Balti- 
more ; Trinity, New Haven ; St. John's, 
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lyn. In each of these he remained the full pe- 
riod of time permissible. His success has been 
well-nigh unprecedented. Through his energy 
$20,000 was raised for Grace Chinch, Wor- 
cester, $32,000 iu Springfield, and $21,000 in 
New Haven. A ministry of thirty years 
which has invariably succeeded in securing 
constant revival without evangelists, led over 
five thousand souls to Christ, united as many 
as nine hundred and fifty in membership with 
particular churches, and passed ninety-eight 
percent, of the vast host received on probation 
into real and full membership, will shine on 
earth as long as the mission of Methodism 
remains unaccomplished. 



JOSEPH S. BAKER, ESQ. 

Joseph S. Baker, first lay delegate from 
North Indiana Conference, has risen to his 
present position of usefulness by the vigor- 
ous action of well-rounded qualities. He is 
a native of Hancock County, O., and was 
born September 8, 1838. From here he re- 
moved with his parents to his present loca- 
tion, at Warsaw, Ind., in 1852. He received 
a good education in the best schools then ex- 
isting in both localities. Upon the outbreak 
of the Civil War he left business for the 
battlefield, and served in the 12th Indiana 
Regiment with the Army of the Potomac un- 
til 1862. During this year he was married 
to Miss Angie Runyan, whose parents ranked 
with the pioneer Methodists of the county. 
They have been blessed with three children, 
two of whom have started on prosperous 
careers. In 1878 Mr. Baker was elected 
Auditor of Kosciusko County, and filled the 
office for two terms. Since early life himself 
and wife, together with their children, have 
been members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, to which their ancestors were so de- 
voted. For many years he has been an active 
worker in the Sunday-school, and has served 
in other offices with great zeal and acceptance. 



Rev. JEREMIAH D. B0TKIN. 

Rev. Jeremiah D. Botkin, who leads the 
delegation this time from the South-west 
Kansas Conference, is a native of Illinois, 
where he was born, in Logan County, April 
24, 1849. When seventeen years old he re- 
moved with his parents to Kansas, and three 
years later was converted and united with the 
Church. After a four years' residence in Kan- 
sas he returned to his native State, and was 
admitted to the Illinois Conference in 1870. 
Up to this period his whole life has been 
spent at farming, and having enjoyed no ed- 
ucational advantages beyond those afforded 
in district schools. After he had labored for 
two years in the ministry he endeavored to 
supply their lack by entering Indiana Asbury 
University. A year of close study there 
proved of lasting benefit. In April, 1882, he 
was transferred to the North-west Kansas 
Conference, in which he has risen to a leading 
position. He was the first to move for a Con- 
ference school, and has from the beginning 
been a trustee of Winfield College. In the 
great changes brought about in temperance re- 
form in his State he has had a leading share. 
He is President of the State Association for 
Camp-meetings, and in these assemblies is 
always a favorite speaker. 

He is at present Presiding Elder of the 
Wichita District, and gives promise of grow- 
ing usefulness. 



REV. WILLIAM F. SPEAKE. 

Rev. William F. Speake, delegate from the 
Baltimore Conference, was born in Baltimore, 
August 3, 1831. He received a good English 
and classical education in the grammar schools 
and city college of Baltimore, chiefly support- 
ing himself during its acquirement. He was 
entirely thrown upon his own resources at 
fourteen years of age, and thus developed 
prominent and valuable traits of character. 




David E. Beem. 




Alfred Wheeler. 




J. M. Warden. 




J. L. Sooy. 




C. J. Clark. 




H. H. McAdams. 




J. E. Bryant. 




J. H. Lock wood. 




P. C. LOUNSBURY. 



5 XIII. 




D. S. Monroe. 




J. M. Shumpert. 




John B. Green. 




H. M. Danforth. 



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After leaving college lie filled the positions of 
clerk and teacher with acceptance and ad- 
vantage. He was converted at fourteen years 
of age, and soon became noted as a vigorous 
worker. He was licensed to preach before he 
had reached his eighteenth year, and in March 
following entered the Baltimore Conference. 
During his ministry he has spent eleven years 
in Virginia, nineteen in Baltimore, and seven 
years in the District of Columbia, for four of 
which he had the position of Presiding Elder 
of Washington District. As preacher, pastor, 
and administrator he has achieved distinction, 
some of his important decisions having been 
sustained by the highest authorities in the 
Church and by leading members of the legal 
profession. The best interests of our Church 
have been largely promoted through his 
career. He is now Presiding Elder of the 
East Baltimore District, and is looked up to 
by many for his strength and wisdom. 



Rev. GEORGE L. DOBBINS. 

Pev. George L. Dobbins, delegate from the 
New Jersey Conference, was favored with a 
goodly heritage of youthful advantages. His 
parents were active members of the Methodist 
Church, and his father a prominent member 
of Congress from the second district of New 
Jersey. He was born in Mount Holly, N. J., 
September 9, 1840. His preparatory studies 
were conducted at public schools during four 
months in each year, the rest of the term being 
absorbed in attention to farm duties. At 
seventeen years of age he entered Pennington 
Seminary, aud shared its privileges for three 
years. He was converted and, joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in February, 
1856. 

After laboring for some time in the capac- 
ity of exhorter and local preacher he was ad- 
mitted to the New Jersey Conference in 1863. 
For twenty-five years he has executed his 
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votion and success the following appoint- 
ments : Harford and Tabernacle, Port Eliza- 
beth, Marlton, Greenville, Cedarville, Bargain- 
town, Clayton, Keyport ; Trinity, Bridgeton ; 
Vineland, and Union, Camden. Through his 
instrumentality the churches have received 
fresh impetus and displayed growing pros- 
perity. Hp is now serving the third year as 
Presiding El ler on the Bridgeton District. 



JAMES GILL1NDER, ESQ. 

James Gillinder, lay delegate from Phila- 
delphia Conference, is a native of Yorkshire, 
England, where he was born in the year 1844. 
His father, who was a man of rare natural 
gifts, emigrated to this country in 1854, and 
found employment in the New England glass 
works. After several vicissitudes he started 
a glass manufactory in Philadelphia, and this 
has since grown to be one of the largest con- 
cerns of its kind east of the Alleghenies. Of 
the work of raising this to its present position 
Mr. James Gillinder did no small share. He 
united with the Church in August, 1865, and 
two years later married Miss Martha W. 
Bennett, daughter of E. Bennett, Esq., of Balti- 
more. As trustee, class-leader, and Sunday- 
school superintendent, his work has been 
earnest and signally successful. 

In 1886 he was elected president of the 
trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, 
and to the promotion of its prosperity he has 
from the start devoted his best energies and 
special attention. 



Rev. EDWARD J. GRAY, D.D. 

Rev. Edward J. Gray, of the Central Penn- 
sylvania Conference, is a native of Pennsylva- 
nia. His ancestors were Scotch-Irish and Hol- 
landers, and his father a life-long Methodist 
and a local preacher for more than forty years. 
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father's farm in summer and attending public 
schools in "winter. The education thus ac- 
quired was supplemented by two years spent 
in Pine Grove Academy and a full course in 
Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, from which 
he was graduated, June, 1858. The following 
March he was admitted to the East Baltimore 
Conference. After serving on a number of 
important stations with great success he was 
elected President of Williamsport Dickinson 
Seminary in February, 1874. His able and 
untiring toils have had much to do with plac- 
ing this institution high among the best 
seminaries in the land. In addition to the 
labors they involved he has achieved consider- 
able in pulpit and platform effort. He had 
dedicated and re-opened nearly one hundred 
churches, and delivered almost as many ser- 
mons and lectures as if only a regular pastor. 
Emphasis has been given to the success of his 
career by the bestowment of the degrees of 
A.M. (1875) and D.D. (1881) from Dickinson 
College, and by his election to the General 
Conference of 1884. 



REV. JOHN F. GOUCHER, D.D. 

Rev. John F. Goucher, D.D., delegate from 
Baltimore Conference, although a young man, 
and occupying this position for the first time, 
is nevertheless known throughout the whole 
Church. His enthusiastic and generous de- 
votion to the cause of missions, his repeated 
and liberal contributions to the Freedmen's 
Aid Society and toward education, justly en- 
title him to a high place among the prince- 
ly supporters of these great enterprises. 
His popularity is due, perhaps, no more to 
this side of his career than to the personal 
strength, self-sacrifice, and success displayed 
in the pastorate. 

Dr. Goucher was born on the 7th of June, 
1845, in Waynesboro, Pa, He was con- 
verted at fourteen years of age, and united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church. His 



education was comprehensive and thorough, 
being received chiefly at Dickinson College, 
from which he was graduated in 1868. His 
degree of D.D. was conferred by the same 
institution in 1885. Entering the Baltimore 
Conference in 1869, he was appointed to one 
of its circuits. Step by step he has risen to 
occupy its leading charges, and is now pastor 
of the First Church of Baltimore, whose mag- 
nificent building enterprise was planned by 
him and conducted to eminent success. 



Rev. JACOB B. GRAW, D.D. 

Rev. Jacob B. Graw, D.D., of New Jersey 
Conference delegation, was born in Rahway, 
N. J., October 24, 1832, and educated in 
Rahway and Bloomfield Seminaries and New 
York Hicdi School. In 1855 he was admitted 
to the New Jersey Conference. During the 
Civil War he acted as chaplain, and for some 
time had command of a regiment. He took a 
prominent share in the State organization in 
the temperance cause, and has been its able 
representative not only in the United States 
but in London. For several years he edited 
the New Jersey Gazette. He was a delegate 
to the General Conference in 1872, and to 
every succeeding one. He has been four 
times Presiding Elder, and has served as a 
member of the Book Committee and as trustee 
of Pennington Seminary and Dickinson Col- 
lege. Few have measured up to a higher 
standard in more widely different capacities. 



REV. ICHABOD SIMMONS. 

Rev. Ichabod Simmons, delegate from New 
York East Conference, was born in Duxbury, 
Mass., on Christmas eve, 1831. While yet 
an infant he was taken to Plymouth, where 
his first sixteen years were passed. A large 
portion of the opening period of manhood he 
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He was carefully trained in accordance with 
the Universalist faith, but his very thorough 
conversion when twenty years of age marked 
the advent of new elements of joy, rest, and 
power. Having decided to enter the minis- 
try, he entered Concord Biblical Institute, in 
which he studied for two years. During one 
of these he was a probationer in the New 
Hampshire Conference. After his graduation 
from Wesleyan University in 1860, he joined 
the New York East Conference, of which he 
has been an active member ever since. Of 
his zealous ministry, sixteen consecutive years 
were spent in Brooklyn. His work as Pre- 
siding Elder for a period of five years was in 
harmony with the even tenor of his unweary- 
ing devotion, and productive of rich results. 
He is a member of the Ocean Grove Camp- 
meeting Association, as also of the Association 
for the Promotion of Holiness, and throws 
his best energies into these aggressive move- 
ments. 



REV. MICHAEL M. STOLZ. 

Rev. Michael M. Stolz, first ministerial 
delegate from North-west Kansas, was born 
April 30, 1836, in Newberry, Pa. The at- 
mosphere in which his youth was passed sup- 
plied the best elements for the production of 
a Christian experience and character. When 
in his nineteenth year he was converted, and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Williamsport, Pa. After the usual pre- 
liminary stages, he was duly admitted to the 
North-west Indiana Conference in the year 
1862. A course at Indiana Asbury University 
proved of incalculable benefit to his ministry. 
After being graduated he served for three 
years as a missionary. In 1876 he was ap- 
pointed Assistant Superintendent of the 
Western Seamen's Society A rich harvest of 
results was gathered for the Church in both 
these spheres. His transfer to the Kansas 
Conference was effected in 1878, and since 
that period he has held responsible trusts 



with general and growing satisfaction and 
success. He was one of the founders of the 
board of trustees of Kansas Wesleyan Univer- 
sity, and acted as its first treasurer. He is now 
Presiding Elder of the Ellsworth District, a 
position to which he was appointed in 1885. 
His efforts in connection with the State 
Temperance Convention to secure prohibition 
lent valuable aid in that memorable struggle. 
A service of twenty-six years so varied and 
earnest well deserves the recognition with 
which it has been crowned. 



Rev. JOSEPH PULLMAN, D.D. 

Rev. Joseph Pullman, D.D., of the New 
York East delegation, was born in the town 
of Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland, Febru- 
ary 22, 1839. For generations his ancestors 
were prominent members of the Established 
Church in that country. His father's office 
was to read the creeds and responses in the 
Church liturgy. On principle he invariably 
refused to repeat the opening damnatory 
clause of the Athanasian Creed. When rep- 
rimanded by a new rector his defense was 
that "he could not desecrate the Lord's house 
by reading a lie." This episode resulted not 
only in his resignation, but in the connecting 
with Methodism a family foremost in work 
and worth. 

Dr. Pullman came to New York in his 
boyhood, and was educated in the city com- 
mon schools. Later he spent three years in 
the City College, studied in the Biblical 
Institute, Concord, N. H., under Professor 
Vail, and after four years in Wesleyan Uni- 
versity was graduated from that institution 
in 1863. While in his youth he attended 
the Twenty-seventh Street Sunday-school, then 
under the superintendency of Mr. John Ste- 
phenson, a man worthy of imperishable re- 
nown. At the age of seventeen he took the 
vow which aims at universal righteousness and 
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became a teacher in the Sunday-school, and 
to his work in that capacity the writer owes 
a lasting tribute. His appointments have all 
been in the New York East Conference, in 
which, by his untiring devotion in the pastor- 
ate, his mastery of the principles of Meth- 
odist economy, his clear and forceful logic in 
debate, and his fidelity to important trusts in 
his care, he has risen to a leading position. 
He has traveled extensively in Europe, and 
enriched our journalistic literature with the 
choice contributions of a polished pen. 



REV. ENOCH HOLDSTOCK. 

Rev. Enoch Holdstock, delegate from the 
North Indiana Conference, is connected with 
England by ties of lineage and birth. He is 
a native of Kent, and was born May 28, 1817. 
At six years of age he emigrated with his 
parents to this country, and settled in Brock- 
land, and later in Elmira, N. Y. When 
fifteen years old he was converted under the 
ministry of Rev. A. N. Filmore. He was 
educated at a branch of the State University 
of Michigan. Joining the Indiana Conference 
in 1839, he traveled for fourteen years in 
that body, and was then transferred to Michi- 
gan Conference. He served some of its prin- 
cipal appointments, and was Presiding Elder 
for one term on the Marshall District. He 
has also been appointed to this office since his 
re-entering the work in North Indiana. 



JOHN B. STORM, ESQ. 

Joh n B. Storm, who is a lay delegate from the 
Philadelphia Conference, was born in Monroe 
County, Pa., in 1838. His ancestors settled 
there early in the history of the State. 
At the a^e of sixteen he commenced to 
teach school. He entered Dickinson College 
in the junior year, and graduated in 1861. 
During his last year he was assistant teacher 



in the Preparatory School of that institution. 
After graduation, he read law with Hon. S. 
S. Dreher, Judge of the Courts of Monroe and 
Carbon Counties, and a leading member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church of Strouds- 
burg. He was admitted to the bar in 1863. 
For seven years he filled the position of County 
Superintendent of Schools. He was a mem- 
ber of the Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty- 
eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was 
converted and joined the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church of his town in 1866, and has been 
for twenty years a local preacher and a mem- 
ber of the board of trustees of said Church. 
He is also a member of the board of trustees 
of Dickinson College. He is now engaged 
in the active practice of law, and is retained 
in all causes of importance in his county, and 
his clients are among the leading corporations 
of the county. 



REV. HENRY GRAHAM, D.D. 

Rev. Henry Graham, D.D., delegate from 
Troy Conference, was born June 3, 1841, in 
the town of Wilna, Jefferson County, N. Y. 
His father came from England when a boy, 
and his mother from Scotland with her par- 
ents when she was in infancy. Determined 
to secure the best possible education, he went 
to Governeur Wesleyan Seminary at twelve 
years of age. Here stern difficulties con- 
fronted him. He had to work on a farm, to 
teach school, and to ring the seminary bell to 
secure the requisite means for board and 
tuitiou, but he bravely persevered until 1861, 
when he entered Union College, Schenectady, 
N. Y. His course in this institution was 
broken by a period of military service, but he 
resumed it after the war, and was graduated 
in 1865. After two years spent in teaching 
he entered Drew Theological Seminary in 
1867, working on McClintock and Strong's 
Cyclopedia to raise necessary funds. He 
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course in the Free Church College, Glasgow. 
Returning to America, he was graduated with 
the first class from Drew Seminary. About 
this time he joined the Troy Conference. As 
pastor, Presiding Elder, and a frequent contrib- 
utor to our current literature he has attained 
to distinction. He received the degree of 
D.D. from Syracuse University, was delegate 
to the General Conference in 1884, and de- 
clined a professorship in Union College out 
of fidelity to the pastorate. 



REV. WILLIAM SWINDELLS, D.D. 

Rev. William Swindells, delegate from the 
Philadelphia Conference, was born November 
29, 1842. After his conversion, which took 
place in 1859, he engnged in Christian work, 
filling successively the offices of class-leader, 
Sunday-school superintendent, and exhorter. 
He entered the ministry in connection with 
the Philadelphia Conference in 1862. After 
serving on several of its charges he was appoint- 
ed Presiding Elder in 1879, being then the 
youngest member of Conference that had held 
that office. He also occupied the position of 
Corresponding Secretary and Book Agent of 
the Philadelphia Tract Society, and was again 
appointed Presiding Elder in 1885. From 
Dickinson College he received the degree of 
D.D. in 1887, and was a member of the Gen- 
eral Conferences of 1880 and 1884. 



Rev. GEORGE S. HARE, D.D. 

Rev. George S. Hare, D.D., a distinguished 
member of the New York Conference delega- 
tion, is a native of Berkshire, Mass. He 
received a liberal education in Wesleyan 
University, Middletown, with a view to the 
legal profession, but at the age of twenty- 
two, yielding to his convictions, entered the 
ministry in his present Conference. 

The ability for which he has since become 



distinguished manifested itself very early in 
his ministerial career. His appointments 
have always been among the best within his 
Conference, and have included such charges as 
Trinity and Seventh Avenue New York; Tre- 
mont Street, Boston, and Central Church, 
Newark. His success and popularity have 
been such that he has twice filled every 
charge in the New York Conference which he 
served once. The marked revivals and gen- 
eral prosperity Avhich have attended his min- 
istry have left a lasting impress along the 
pathway of his toils. He received the degree 
of A.M. from Wesleyan University, Middle- 
town, and in 1866 that of D.D. from the 
North-western University, at Evanston, 111. 



REV. GEORGE N. POWER, D.D. 

George Neal Power, eldest son of Rev. 
John A. Power, D.D., was born in Portsmouth, 
O., March 3, 1829. He was converted in 
childhood, educated at Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, and licensed to preach in Cincinnati 
in 1853. On August 12, 1856, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Matilda Brown, in Leesburg, O., 
a lady of rare accomplishments, who has 
been a faithful assistant in his ministerial 
work. 

Dr. Power was admitted on trial into the 
Iowa Conference in September, 1856, since 
which time he has efficiently filled various 
responsible appointments, including the Pre- 
siding Eldership of the Ottumwa, Muscatine, 
and Keokuk Districts, the latter being his 
present field of labor. He has been one of 
the secretaries of his Conference since 1860, 
and has been the chief since 1876. His ex- 
cellent business qualifications admirably fit 
him for this service, and it is not surprising 
that his brethren re-elect him each year. He 
has been an official visitor or trustee of Iowa 
Wesleyan University for over twenty-five 
years, and has done much for the advancement 
of this institution. His degree of D.D. was 



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an honor conferred upon him by Albion Col- 
lege in 1876. 

There are only four members of the Con- 
ference now in the active work who were in 
it when Dr. Power was admitted, and he is 
the only one who has not been out of the 
regular work since 1856. This is not the 
first time he has been elected to the General 
Conference, he having been a delegate in 
1876. 



FRANCIS ASBURY ARTER, ESQ. 

Francis Asbury Arter, lay delegate from 
East Ohio Conference, was born at Hanover- 
ton, <)., March 8, 1841. His connection with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church dates from 
the time when he was twelve years of age. 
Notwithstanding the fact that through severe 
financial reverses he was early thrown on his 
own resources, he attended school until his 
seventeenth year. He afterward earned 
enough by teaching to start him in Allegheny 
College, and after completing a five years' 
course in three years was graduated in 1864. 
During that year he engaged in the oil trade, 
a branch to which he has devoted his energies 
ever since. In 1866 he removed to Cleveland, 
( )., where he has proved himself an active and 
useful member of the Church. 



Rev. JACOB TODD, D.D. 

Rev. Jacob Todd, wdio leads the delegation 
from AVilmington Conference, is a native of 
New Jersey, and was born October 22, 1838. 
He was converted- in 1857 under the ministry 
of Rev. J. C. Thomas. The year 1861 marked 
his entrance upon the toils and triumphs of 
itinerant life. Pausing in his labors to secure 
a more thorough equipment, he spent three 
years in Dickinson College, and was graduated 
in 1866. Prominent amons; the charges he has 
served have been Fifth Street, Spring Garden 
Street, and Green Street, Philadelphia ; St, 



Paul's, Newark, N. J., and Grace Church, Wil- 
mington, for two terms. In 1876 he received 
the degree of D.D. from his alma mater, and 
came within one vote of election to General 
Conference. He also served as delegate in 
1878 to the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Canada, to the General Conference of 1880, 
and to the Ecumenical Conference in London 
in 1881. 

As an eloquent preacher, an able admin- 
istrator, and a clear and forceful writer Dr. 
Todd fills a position of eminent usefulness in 
our great pastoral ranks of to-day. 



LEBBEUS C. SMITH, Esq. 

Lebbeus C. Smith, who was elected a lay 
delegate of the New England Conference, is 
a native of Palmer, and has been a resident 
of Springfield for forty years. He went 
there just as he was attaining his majority, 
and at first worked for the late Wells P. Hod- 
gett as a cabinet-maker. A few years after 
he went into the shoe business with the late 
Rufus Elmer, and after Mr. Elmer withdrew 
from the firm Mr. Smith kept a retail boot 
and shoe store for some fifteen years. He 
then engaged in the manufacture of shoes, 
and for a number of years had the contract 
for the labor of the inmates of the Hampden 
County jail in his city. About five years ago 
Mr. Smith gave up his shoe-manufacturing, 
and since that time has attended to his prop- 
erty interests and has built quite a number 
of houses. Mrs. Smith was Miss Elmer, 
sister of Willard Elmer, of Springfield. They 
have two daughters, Mrs. W. W. More and 
Mrs. E. P. Barton. 

Mr. Smith has been all his life identified 
with the Methodist Church as an attendant 
and a liberal supporter, and for the past thir- 
teen years has been a member of Trinity 
Church, having united with that Church un- 
der the pastorate of Rev. Merritt Hulburd, 
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well known and popular in Methodist circles, 
and his election by unanimous vote of the lay 
delegates from all the districts included in the 
New England Conference is a compliment 
of which he and his friends may well be 
proud. 



HON. PHINEAS C. LOUNSBURY. 

Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, first lay dele- 
gate from New York East Conference, is 
Governor of Connecticut, and was born at 
Ridgefield in that State some forty-six years 
ago. After acquiring a thorough academic 
education he obtained a clerkship in New 
York city, and subsequently opened a shoe 
manufactory in New Haven. This business 
he has developed to still larger dimensions in 
Norwalk, under the name of Lounsbury, Mat- 
thewson & Co. His efforts for the elevation 
and welfare of the working classes have been 
of the most praiseworthy character. When 
the Civil War broke out he entered the 17th 
Connecticut Volunteers, and served until 
stricken down with disease. 

Mr. Lounsbury represented Ridgefield in 
the State Legislature of 1874, and took an 
active part in the promotion of reformatory 
legislation. His statesmanlike qualities mark 
him out for effective and valuable service. 
He is at present President of the Mer- 
chants' Exchange National Bank in New 
York and a leading; member of local financial 
circles. 



HENRY P. CANNON, ESQ. 

Henry P. Cannon, A.M., lay delegate from 
Wilmington Conference, was born February 
27, 1847, in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Del. 
The Cannons are of English descent, and the 
Laws, his mother's family, of Italian. Both 
families settled in Delaware before the Revo- 
lution, and were then, as now, leading families 
in the State. Alexander Laws, a maternal 
ancestor, was the second man on board the 



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frigate Philadelphia in her recapture by De- 
catur from the Tripolitans. His father, Hon. 
William Cannon, was the loyal war governor 
of Delaware. 

Mr. Cannon was converted in 1863, in 
Bridgeville. He was graduated from Dickin- 
son College in 1870, was appointed class-leader 
upon his return from college, and is still lead- 
ing the same class. He is also steward and 
trustee. He was a merchant for fourteen 
years, and is now in the lumber, canning, and 
fruit-growing business. He has had great 
prosperity in business, and is noted for his 
growing generosit}\ On January 4, 1872, he 
was married to Miss Annie Dale, of Carlisle, 
Pa. Their union has been blessed with three 
children. He was a member of the Electoral 
Conferences of 1884 and 1888, and was 
elected to this General Conference by a very 
gratifying vote. 



REV. JOHN A. HOLMES. 

Rev. John A. Holmes, of Washington Con- 
ference, was born December 11, 1848, in Lex- 
ington, Va. He was converted in 1866, and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
From infancy he was blessed with the loving 
care of a sainted mother, whose influence 
shaped his future. His father was not relig- 
ious, but was always careful about the train- 
ing of his children. After passing through 
the public schools at home, he went to Storer 
College, and was graduated in 1872. He en- 
tered the ministry in 1874, and filled the fol- 
lowing appointments in the Washington An- 
nual Conference: Mount Vernon Circuit, three 
years; Lewisburg, W. Va., one year; Martins- 
burg, W. Va., two years ; Sharp Street, Bal- 
timore, three years ; Annapolis, Md., one 
year. At the Conference of 1884 he "was 
elected secretary of the Conference, appointed 
to preach the annual missionary sermon, and 
elected delegate to the General Conference. 
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ference in the same year, and stationed at St. 
Mark's Church, which he served for three 
years. On returning to the Washington 
Conference, in 1887, he was stationed at Au- 
gusta Street Station, and Staunton, Va., where 
he is now serving the second year. He is 
Editor of the Central Methodist, a paper ex- 
tensively circulated in the Washington Con- 
ference. 



Rev. FRANKLIN T. SIMPSON. 

Rev. Franklin T. Simpson, of the North 
Indiana delegation, was born in Ross County, 
O., February 13, 1836. He was converted in 
the fall of 1857, in Waterford, Ind., whither 
the family had removed some years previous- 
ly. He entered the ministry of his present 
Conference in April, 1859. His toils have 
been varied, earnest, and successful. With 
rare devotion he has served alike in the less 
conspicuous positions and in the high places 
of the field. His itinerant career shows a 
record of six years spent in circuit work, 
twenty on stations, and four in his present 
position as Presiding Elder of the Goshen 
District. His concentration of energies in 
the prosecution of one great aim has won for 
him many friends. 



Rev. THOMAS B. FORD. 

Rev. Thomas B. Ford, the ministerial del- 
egate from the Arkansas Conference, was born 
in Tennessee, June 21, 1848, and removed to 
Arkansas in 1854. He was converted and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
in 1867. He entered the ministry in the 
Missouri and Arkansas Conference in 1868, 
and was appointed to a circuit in Arkansas, 
where he has spent the whole of his minis- 
terial life. He has ably served the Church 
as pastor, Presiding Elder, and Financial 
Agent of the Little Rock University. He 
has been honored with election to three suc- 



cessive General Conferences, and has served 
on the General Missionary and Church Exten- 
sion Committees. He is at present Presiding 
Elder of the Little Rock District, and is 
highly esteemed for his varied gifts and ex- 
tended usefulness. 



HON. JOHN K. POLLARD. 

Hon. John K. Pollard, a lay delegate from 
the Cincinnati Conference, was born near 
Manchester, Adams County, O., April 4, 1843. 
He was converted and united with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in the year 1868. 
When the War of the Rebellion began he 
responded to the call of his country, and en- 
listed in the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
October, 1861, but was honorably discharged 
in 1862, on account of disabilities. He re- 
enlisted in the early part of 1864, and was 
soon after commissioned Second Lieutenant 
of Company 1, 182d Ohio Volunteer Infantr} r , 
serving to the close of the war. On return- 
ing home he settled down upon his farm, and 
for nearly ten years he was a thrifty farmer, 
a good Christian citizen, and was so well and 
favorably known that his fellow-citizens 
pressed him to accept a nomination on the 
Republican ticket for sheriff. He consented, 
with little or no hope of success, inasmuch 
as the county was Democratic by something 
over five hundred. But he was elected by a 
handsome majority, and again in 1877 he was 
re-elected by about seven hundred majority. 
When his term of office was nearing the close 
the party placed his name upon the ticket for 
State senator. He was twice elected to this 
position, and his services in this capacity have 
rendered him exceedingly popular throughout 
the State. He is a man of exemplary char- 
acter, and a very active official member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in West Union, 
O. His liberality to the Church is both 
marked and generous. He is an active and 
successful merchant, carrying on an extensive 



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business in West Union, O. Standing upon 
an unquestioned reputation, with a record of 
successful operations behind him, he bids fair 
to achieve much for the Church and his coun- 
try in the future. 



Rev. SAMUEL L. ROBERTS. 

Rev. Samuel L. Roberts, of the Central Ohio 
Conference, was born in Stark County, O., 
February 5, 1830. He was converted and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
in 1849, licensed to preach, and resigned a 
school, and accepted work as supply on Rich- 
mond Circuit in 1853. In August, 1854, he 
was received into the North Ohio Conference. 
In the division of the Conference he fell into 
what is now the Central Ohio Conference. 
He was ordained deacon by Bishop Waugh 
in 1856, and elder by Bishop Clark in 1858. 
Ten years later he was appointed Presiding 
Elder of Lima District, and was elected to 
the General Conference of 1872. He was 
one of the trustees of the Female College at 
the time of its union with the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, and an advocate of co-education. 
As one of the originators of the Superan- 
nuated Preachers' Aid Society of the Confer- 
ence, and its first president, he rendered a 
service of lasting benefit. In 1877 he was 
appointed Presiding Elder of Bellefontaine 
District, and in 1884 to another district, in 
both of which he displayed superior ability. 
He was one of the delegates to the Centennial 
of Episcopal Methodism held in Baltimore 
in 1884. 



Rev. JOHN W. LOCKE, D.D. 

Rev. John W. Locke, D.D., of the Southern 
Illinois Conference, is the son of a Methodist 
minister, and was born in Paris, Ky., Febru- 
ary 12, 1822. He was graduated from Au- 
gusta College, Kentucky, in 1842, and united 
with the Ohio Conference in 1843. He was 

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transferred to the Indiana Conference in 
1850, and in 1853 elected President of Brook- 
ville College, wdrich position he held for four 
years. In the meantime he was appointed to 
the Connersville District, and at the expiration 
of his term, in 1860, was elected Professor of 
Mathematics in Indiana Asbury University, 
where he remained twelve years, and then 
returned to the pastorate. In 1874 he was 
called to the presidency of McKendree Col- 
lege, where he served four years. He was 
then appointed successively to the Lebanon 
District, the Mount Vernon and Fairfield sta- 
tions of the Southern Illinois Conference, each 
of which he served three years, and then to 
the Alton District, which position he now fills. 
He represented in General Conference the 
South-east Indiana Conference in 1860 and 
in 1868, and the Southern Illinois Conference 
in 1876, 1880, and 1888; he also represented 
the seventh General Conference District in 
the General Missionary and Church Extension 
Committees from 1880 to 1884. 



Rev. BENJAMIN ST. JAMES FRY, D.D. 

Benjamin St. James Fry was born in Rnt- 
ledge, Tenn., June 16, 1824, but his parents 
removed to Cincinnati in his early childhood, 
and he received his education at the Wood- 
ward College. His first literary w 7 ork Avas 
contributions to the periodical press of that 
city, and in 1844 he became the joint editor 
and publisher of the Western Rambler, a 
short-lived weekly literary journal. In 1847 
he was admitted into the Ohio Conference, 
and remained a member of it till 1866, when 
he was transferred to Missouri. During this 
period he was stationed at Portsmouth, New- 
ark, Chillicothe, and Zanesville, and served 
four years (1856-1860) as President of the 
Worthington Female College. He served, 
also, three years (1861-1864) as Chaplain of 
the 63d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1865 
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department of the St. Louis depository of 
the Western Methodist Book Concern, where 
he remained till 1872, when he was elected 
by the General Conference of that year Ed- 
itor of the Central Christian Advocate, and 
is now completing his fourth term in that 
position. Dr. Fry has wiitten freely for the 
Methodist and secular press. He is the au- 
thor of several Sunday-school books, among 
which are Lives of Bishops Whateoat, Mc- 
Kendree, Roberts, and George. An essay, 
" Property Consecrated, 1 ' was accepted as a 
prize essay on systematic beneficence. He 
was a member of the London Methodist 
Ecumenical Conference of 1881, and of the 
Baltimore Methodist Centennial Conference 
of 1884, where he read an essay on ''The Meth- 
odist Press." He received the degree of D.D. 
from Quincy College. He leads the St. Louis 
Conference delegation. 



Rev. EDWARD W. S. HAMMOND, D.D. 

Edward W. S. Hammond, of Lexington 
Conference, was born in Baltimore, Md., Feb- 
ruary 1-1, 1842, and is the son of Christian 
parents, who had formerly been slaves. He 
was converted at an early age, and attended 
the schools taught in his native city for the 
benefit of free colored people. Through the 
munificence of the late Hon. William E. 
Dodge, of New York, he was enrolled as a 
student of Lincoln University (near Oxford, 
Pa.) in 1864, where he pursued a collegiate 
and theological course until 1867. In 1872 
he was admitted into the Washington Con- 
ference, and appointed to Union Methodist 
Episcopal Church, Cincinnati. He afterward 
filled the following appointments: Paris, Ky., 
1874-1876; Hardinsburg, Ky., 1876-1878; 
Lexington, Ky., 1878-1880; Indiana District, 
1881-1884; Covington, Ky., 1884-1886; 
Ohio District, 1887-1888. He was elected 
reserve delegate to the General Conference of 
1876, and delegate in 1880, when he made a 



speech in favor of the election of a colored 
Bishop which attracted general attention. 
He was also elected reserve delegate to the 
General Conference of 1884, and delegate to 
the present assembly. He received the hon- 
orary degiee of Doctor of Divinity from New 
Orleans University at the recent commence- 
ment, in May, 1888. 



Rev. JOHN GILLIES. 

Rev. John Gillies, of Missouri Conference, 
was born in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, 
October 24, 1841. In 1851 he removed with 
his parents to Canada West. Here he grew 
up, and was educated in one of the grammar 
schools of the Province of Ontario. Through 
the instrumentality of the Wesleyan preach- 
ers he was converted in the spring of 1858. 
He was licensed to exhort, then to preach, in 
the year 1862; and when Dr. Elliott visited 
the Wesleyan Conference in the city of Lon- 
don, Ontario, about the close of the war, and 
said that seventy preachers were needed for 
our work in Missouri, he offered himself to 
Dr. N. Shumate, Presiding Elder of the Han- 
nibal District, Missouri Conference, was ac- 
cepted, and appointed to the Shelbina Mis- 
sion. His circuit extended for thirty miles 
along the line of the Hannibal and St. Jo- 
seph Railroad. Here, without an organiza- 
tion or a member*, he organized societies, had 
gracious revivals, and at the close of his sec- 
ond year he left a well-organized charge, with 
one hundred and forty-four members. 

He was ordained deacon by Bishop Ames 
in March, 1867, and elder by the same Bishop 
in Savannah four years later. He has filled 
one term as Presiding Elder, and has occupied 
the most important stations in his Conference. 
He is at present Conference treasurer, and is 
in his third year's pastorate in the First 
Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, Mo. 
He has been twice elected President of the 
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is stationed. He is held in high esteem by 
the members of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public, and was the orator of the last Decora- 
tion Day, and spoke to ten thousand people. 
The oration was published in the city papers, 
and pronounced the ablest that had ever been 
delivered in that city. He is married, and 
has two children, a son and a daughter. 



BUTLER C. CHRISTY, ESQ. 

Butler C. Christy, lay delegate from the 
Pittsburg Conference, was born September 
15, 1842, in Westmoreland County, Pa., and 
was educated in the common schools, and for 
a short time in Mount Union College, Ohio. 
He united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in October, 1864, at Arch Street, 
Allegheny, Pa., and shortly after removed to 
Sewickley, Pa., where he has held his mem- 
bership since. He has efficiently filled all the 
offices accessible to laymen. He enlisted as 
a private in Company C, 123d Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, August 7, 1862, and was severely 
wounded at the battle of Chancellorville, 
May 3, 1863, and discharged from the serv- 
ice. He read law after his return 'from the 
war, and was admitted to the bar in Pitts- 
burg in 1865, and has been in active practice 
since. In the fall of 1873 he was elected a 
member of the House of Representatives of 
Pennsylvania, and served during the sessions 
of 1874-76. 



LEVIN S. MELSON, ESQ. 

Levin S. Melson, lay delegate from Wil- 
mington Conference, was born in Worcester 
County, Md., May 18, 1835. At one 
time his parents and all of their ten children 
were in membership together. Levin was 
converted at the age of twelve years, and at 
once became an active worker as Sunday- 
school teacher and class-leader. He is at 



present a trustee of the Wilmington Confer- 
ence Academy, and also trustee, class-leader, 
steward, and Sunday-school superintendent 
of Wilson Church at Bishopville, where he 
resides. The beautiful church there was 
built largely through his efforts. He is per- 
sonally noted for intense earnestness, blended 
with humility and gentleness. In 1866 he 
was married to Miss Mary C. Dale, of Whaley- 
ville, who with one other in her commu- 
nity remained true to our Church during the 
war. His business is that of manufacturing 
sawed lumber, and he has been greatly pros- 
pered. On January 1, 1887, he and his wife 
determined to add nothing more to their capi- 
tal, but to devote all their income, save a bare 
subsistence, to the service of God. The 
Church already feels the impulse of this new 
consecration. In 1886 he was the Prohibition 
candidate for Congress in the First Congres- 
sional District of Maryland, and increased the 
vote over the very handsome one of 1884 by 
four hundred per cent. The Church, however, 
is the chief center of his work and joy and 
hope, and the best of his energies and gifts are 
consecrated to her interests. 



Rev. CHARLES G. TRUSDELL, D.D. 

Rev. Charles Gregory Trusdell, D.D., dele- 
gate from Rock River Conference, was born 
in Montgomery, Orange County, N. Y., May 
1, 1826. He was converted and joined the 
Congregational Church in his native town in 
1840. In early life he was apprenticed to the 
jewelry business in New York city. Later 
he was employed as salesman and commercial 
traveler for an importing house iu New York 
until 1855. He spent two years during this 
time in Ohio, where, with his wife, he joined 
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chester- 
ville, Morrow County, under the pastorate of 
Elnathan C. Gavitt, D.D. He left New York 
city, May 1, 1855, to establish in Iowa City, 
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He was licensed to preach in 1857, and was 
received into the Upper Iowa Conference the 
same year. His appointments were Marshall- 
town, Davenport, Clinton, and Presiding El- 
der of the Iowa City District. He served as 
Chaplain of the 2d Iowa Cavalry over a year, 
when he resigned on account of sickness. He 
was transferred to the Rock River Conference 
in 1869, and served the Grant Place and 
Langley Ave. (now Oakland) Churches, and 
was by Bishop Fowler appointed Piesiding 
Elder of the Chicago District in 1885. He 
was for several years General Superintendent 
of "The Chicago Relief and Aid Society" 
which had the disbursement of the "fire fund," 
amounting to $(3,000,000, being the amount 
contributed by the world's charity to the suf- 
ferers by the great fire in Chicago in 1871. 



REV. GEORGE S. CHADB0URNE, S.T.D. 

Rev. George S. Chadbourne, delegate from 
New England Conference, is a native of Great 
Falls, New r Hampshire. Here potent and 
helpful influences early exerted themselves 
toward the shaping of his character and his 
preparation for a useful and noble life. He 
prepared for college at Northfield (now Til- 
tun ), N. H, and entered Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Conn., August, 1854, being grad- 
uated from it in 1858. The time from his 
graduation until April, 1863, was spent in 
Troy Conference Academy in the capacity of 
Teacher of Ancient Languages and Associate 
Principal. He entered the pastorate in 1868, 
and in it his labors have been noted as cover- 
ing a wide range of important appointments, 
and as being attended with conspicuous suc- 
cess. The following charges were filled in 
chronological order: Rutland, Vt. ; Albany; 
Gloversviile ; Lowell, Mass; Boston; Worces- 
ter; Somerville; Cambridge, and Charles- 
town. In 1886 he was appointed Presiding 
Elder of North Boston District, and recently 
he has been called to fill the same office in the 



Boston District. In his published sermons 
and addresses, as well ;is in his frecpuent con- 
tributions to the Metliodi^t Review and other 
periodicals, he has exhibited valuable qualities 
of style, scholarship, and discrimination. His 
attainments received recognition by the be- 
stowment of the degree of S.T.D. from Claflin 
University. 



REV. CLEMENT A. C. ACHARD. 

Rev. Clement A. C. Achard, delegate from 
the Germany Conference, was born on Octo- 
ber 8, 1833, at Fried rich sdorf, near Frankfort- 
on-the-Main, Germany. He is the descendant 
of an old Huguenot family, which at the time 
of the revocation of the edict of Nantes had to 
flee from their home in France and seek refuge 
in the new colony then established at Fried- 
richsdorf. From early youth he was favored 
with careful religious training, which bore 
fruit in his decided conversion when yet in 
his seventeenth year. Entering the ministry 
in the Conference of Germany and Switzer- 
land in 1859, he thenceforward devoted his 
best energies toward the evangelization of his 
native land. After rendering valuable serv- 
ice as pastor and Presiding Elder, he was 
called to fill the presidency of our seminary 
at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1886, in which 
capacity he still labors. His toils are ably 
assisted and supplemented by those of his 
wife, the eldest daughter of the late Rev. L. 
S. Jacoby, D.D. She is the efficient matron 
of the above-named institution. 



HIRAM C. CLARK, ESQ. 

Hiram C. Clark, lay delegate from Newark 
Conference, was born in Sussex County, N. J., 
in 1830. He was educated in the common 
schools of that county in " winter terms," 
working diligently on a farm through the in- 
tervening summers His career has been full 
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follows : twenty years spent in business, three 
years as member of the State Legislature, for 
eight years Judge of County Courts, and 
Manager of the State Asylum for nine years. 
He also fills the positions of member of the 
Historical Society of New Jersey and director 
of the Sussex National Bank. His union 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church took 
place in 1850, under the ministry of the Kev. 
Thomas Walters, now deceased, and from that 
period till the present his energies have been 
freely and constantly devoted to Church work. 
He resides at Newton, Sussex County, and is 
class-leader, trustee, president of the official 
board of the Newton Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and Vice-President of the Sussex 
County Sunday-school Association. He was 
a delegate to the International Sundav-school 
Convention held at Chicago last June, and is 
President of the Sussex County Bible Society. 
In all these fields of responsible and godly 
toil he has displayed signal ability and uni- 
form thoroughness, and achieved results of 
large and permanent import to the Church 
he has served. 



ALEXANDER ASHLEY, ESQ. 

Alexander Ashley, first lay delegate from 
the Baltimore Conference, received his early 
training at the hands of a widowed mother in 
a log-cabin situated a few miles from Pitts- 
burg, where he was born on May 31, 1831. 
After spending some time in the work of 
teaching he entered Allegheny College in 
1856, and was prepared to pass into its senior 
class in 1861, when he enlisted in the u Alle- 
gheny College Volunteers." He served in the 
signal corps from August, 1861, to March, 
1863, and a month after his discharge was ap- 
pointed clerk in the Signal Bureau at Wash- 
ington. Since then he has labored continu- 
ously in connection with this department, and 
with increasing influence and success. He 
was graduated from Allegheny College in 



1886, and assigned to his class, that of 1862, 
receiving the degree of A.M. at the same 
time. His conversion occurred in September, 
1852, and from that event until now he has 
proved himself a tireless and enthusiastic 
toiler in the ranks of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. For the past twenty-five years he has 
been a member of the Union Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, Washington, D. C, and has had 
intrusted to his wise and faithful stewardship 
many of the official positions open to laymen. 
He received election to the Lay Electoral Con- 
ference five times in succession, and was re- 
serve delegate to the General Conferences of 
1880 and 1884. 



CHARLES D. JONES, ESQ. 

Charles D. Jones, lay delegate from the 
North-west Kansas Conference, is of honored 
Methodist parentage. His great-grandfather, 
John Sproson, was for some years a member 
of the old John Street Church, and was one 
of the board of trustees of that church who 
on October 20, 1796, executed the manumis- 
sion papers giving freedom to the old colored 
sexton, Peter Williams, who had been pur- 
chased by the church thirteen years before. 

Mr. Jones was born on July 29, 1848, in 
Covington, Ind. His father, Dr. C. V. Jones, 
was one of the pioneer Methodists of Indiana, 
whose home was always open to the itinerant 
preacher, and from whose purse was freely 
given to the support and building up of the 
Church. He was graduated from the Indiana 
Asbnry University with the class of 1871, and 
in the fall of that year he was married to Miss 
Lucy Reed, daughter of Judge Alfred F. 
Reed, of Monticello, Ind. For two years fol- 
lowing the fall of 1871 he superintended the 
schools of Williatnsport, Ind., after which he 
entered upon the study of the law with Judge 
Reed. In 1874 he was elected Prosecuting 
Attorney of the 23d Judicial Circuit of Indi- 
ana, and filled that office until the fall of 



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1877. In 1875 he moved to La Fayette, 
Ind., where he lived until December, 1885, 
when he moved to Norton, Norton County, 
Kan., where he now resides, pursuing his 
profession and having a large practice. Mr. 
Jones has been superintendent of the Norton 
Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school during 
the last two years, and is President of the 
Norton County Sunday-school Association. 
He is one of the trustees of Norton Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and actively engaged in 
all church work. He is also one of the 
trustees of the Kansas Wesleyan University, 
located at Salina, Kan., which bids fair to 
become one of the great western universities 
of the Church. 



GEORGE T. KING, Esq. 

George T. King, lay delegate from St. 
John's River Conference, was born in New 
Bedford, Mass., July 10, 1846. From boy- 
hood his life has been one of busy toil. At 
the age of twenty-one he was converted and 
joined the Pleasant Street Methodist Episco- 
pal Church in New Bedford. His Christian 
life and Church connection have been well 
maintained ever since. His business career 
assumed new proportions with his removal to 
Florida, January 1, 1885. Here he had the 
honor of founding the town now known to a 
few as Villa City, in Lake County, and which, 
ere many years, will be known far and wide 
as the most beautiful and popular interior 
town in all of that rapidly growing State. 
With wise forethought and generous expen- 
diture he was mainly instrumental in the 
erection of the recently constructed Methodist 
Episcopal Church of that place. He re- 
ceived the flattering tribute of the unani- 
mous vote of the lay electors of the St. John's 
River Conference for his present position as 
delegate. Consistency of character, untiring 
devotion to the interests of our Church, and 
a goodly measure of achievement are among 
the interpretations of this handsome act. 



Rev. HENRY A. CARROLL. 

Rev. Henry A. Carroll, delegate from the 
Washington Conference, ranks in the present, 
assembly with those who have triumphed 
over a heritage of difficulties imposed by 
slavery. He was born October 26, 1834. 
His father, being a slave, could not afford him 
the privileges of education. From the Rev. 
Mr. Dowling, of t lie old Baltimore Confer- 
ence, he learned to read. Once started on 
this path he persevered, receiving fresh im- 
petus and help with his conversion in 1850. 
He was licensed to preach at the age of 
twenty-two, and admitted to the Washington 
Conference in 1865. He spent three years 
in the Centenary Biblical Institute under the 
instruction of Rev. J. E. Round, D.D., and 
two years in Howard Institute, from the theo- 
logical department of which he was duly 
graduated. He was ordained deacon in 1867, 
and elder two years later by the late Bishop 
Simpson. His toils in the ministry have been 
earnest and faithful. For four years he 
served as Presiding Elder on the Baltimore 
District, and is now completing a full term 
on the Alexandria District. His election to 
the General Conference of 1880 and also t<> 
the present is a fitting tribute of confidence 
and esteem. 



Rev. WILLIAM S. HOOKER. 

Rev. William S. Hooker, of the Des Moines 
Conference delegation, is a native of England, 
and was born at Horndean, near Portsmouth, 
January 29, 1835. He was converted when 
nineteen years old, and joined the Wesleyan 
Methodist Church in Portsmouth. He at 
once began to preach, his license being granted 
by Rev. T. H. Squance, then the only sur- 
vivor of Bishop Coke's noble band of mis- 
sionaries, the first Methodist preachers in 
India. This noted missionary was then (1855) 
the "superintendent preacher" on the Ports- 
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relationship put him in the true apostolic 
succession. He was married to Miss Sarah 
Humphreys in 1862, and in 1869 they emi- 
grated to this country. 

Mr. Hooker was admitted to Des Moines 
Conference in 1870, and his ministry em- 
braces periods spent in earnest pastoral work 
in the following charges : Decatur City, Col- 
lege Springs, Shenandoah, Villisca; Wesley, 
Des Moines ; Clarinda, Indianola, and Cres- 
ton. He was also Presiding Elder of Council 
Bluffs District for four years. In all these 
fields he has been untiring in his efforts to 
advance every important interest of the 
Church, and his endeavors have been crowned 
with rich results. 



WILLIAM H. MOCK, ESQ. 

William H. Mock, lay delegate from South- 
west Kansas Conference, was born at Colum- 
bus, O., March 13, 1848, and was converted, 
and united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, Ma}^, 1864, at Bigelow Chapel, Co- 
lumbus, O. He was licensed as an exhorter 
at Lebanon, 111., 1868, and as a local preacher 
at Hilliards, O., in 1869. His toils and travels 
have been abundant and extensive, embracing 
arduous work in the following spheres: Max- 
ville and Plymouth Circuits in Ohio Confer- 
ence, and Delavan and Heron Lake Circuits, 
Minnesota Conference. He was ordained 
deacon at the Minnesota Conference of 1874 
by Bishop Wiley, and was then returned to 
the Delavan Circuit, remaining on the circuit 
until November, 1875. Removing to Kansas 
in 1877, he settled at Anthony, Harper County, 
Kan., in July, 1878. As the town had only 
been laid out in April of the same year, the 
country was new, and yet was being set- 
tled very rapidly. A few Methodists were 
found among the home-seekers, and in Octo- 
ber, 1878, he organized the first Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Anthony, Kan., which 
has a membership now of about one hundred 



and twenty-five, and church and parsonage 
property worth about $5,000. He was or- 
dained elder by Bishop Bowman at the South- 
west Kansas Conference held at Wichita, 
Kan., March, 1888, and elected lay delegate 
to the General Conference* He is now filling 
the position of class-leader, steward, and 
trustee. 



ALBERT M. CARD, ESQ. 

Albert M. Card, lay delegate from the 
New York Conference, is well known to many 
in our Eastern Methodist circles, where his 
best energies have been so steadily and 
actively employed for the furtherance of high 
aims and noble enterprises. He was born 
July 21, 1845, in Columbia County, N. Y., 
and received his education at common schools, 
supplemented by thorough courses at Sharon 
High School, Amenia Seminary, N. Y., and 
Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After 
graduation from the two latter he studied 
law with Judge Charles Wheaton, of Pough- 
keepsie, and was admitted to practice in 1866. 
He has adhered to his chosen profession from 
that date until now. He was chosen to fill 
the positions of School Commissioner, United 
States Revenue Assessor, and member of the 
Legislature of Connecticut in 1886, and is 
President of the village of Sharon, and its 
local magistrate. He was converted in 1872 
and received into the Methodist Episcopal 
Church by Rev. H. B. Mead. With pains- 
taking zeal he has served for many years as 
class-leader, trustee, steward, district steward, 
and Sunday-school superintendent, and in 
every capacity has contributed much toward 
the prosperity and progress of our Church. 



REV. SAMUEL W. THOMAS. 

Rev. Samuel W. Thomas, of the Philadel- 
phia delegation, w r as born in Wilmington, Del., 
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1839, and after careful training entered the 
ministry in 1851. His ministerial career has 
been as varied in range as fruitful in achieve- 
ment. He spent, seven years on circuits, an- 
other seven on stations in Philadelphia, and a 
corresponding term as Agent of the Philadel- 
phia Book Depository. Under his enterprise 
and energy the business of the latter was 
quadrupled, and the commodious premises in 
1018 and 1020 Arch Street purchased and 
paid for. With a view to relieving the heavy 
strain tlras involved, he was appointed Pre- 
siding Elder of the South Philadelphia Dis- 
trict, and from time to time has filled some of 
the best city appointments. He was an active 
member of the Committee on Entertainment 
for the General Conference of 1864, member of 
the General Conference of 1868, and led his 
delegation at the General Conference of 1872. 
While agent he published a large number of 
books, and compiled new forms for church 
requisites still largely used in all parts of the 
United States. He is now completing a full 
term on the North Philadelphia District. The 
impress of his activity will continue to be felt 
there after many days, while in wide circles 
his tireless devotion to duty has rendered him 
the object of grateful esteem and generous 
confidence. 



REV. GEORGE F. EATON. 

Rev. George F. Eaton, a delegate from the 
New England Conference, was born in New 
Hampshire, July 17, 1838. His education was 
received at the High School and Crosby's 
Literary Institute, Nashua, N. H., supple- 
mented by thorough study in the Theological 
Institute, Concord, N. H. He entered the 
ministry in connection with the New Hamp- 
shire Conference, and after five years of 
earnest and successful toil within its bounds 
was transferred to the New England Confer- 
ence in 1886. His entire ministerial career 
has been attended with very gracious revivals, 
resulting in a large increase of membership 



on the charges he has served. With one ex- 
ception he has remained for the full term of 
three years on each pastoral charge since the 
law bearing on this subject was changed. 
Under his leadership a valuable church edi- 
fice was erected at Prospect Street, Gloucester, 
and the money raised for a new church on 
another charge. The wise forethought and 
energy thus displayed have not only secured 
for him a large meed of esteem, but will still 
further tend to increase the fruit borne by his 
ministry. He was appointed Presiding Elder 
over the Springfield District in 1886, and in 
this sphere he has done much toward lifting 
the churches into increased liberality and a 
new measure of general prosperity. 



REV. ELIAS D. WHITLOCK, D.D. 

Rev. Elias D. Whitlock, who leads the del- 
egation from Central Ohio Conference, was 
born in Montgomery C unty, O., in 1843. 
His early education was secured in the coun- 
try school, and in the High School of Piqua, 
O. He then entered the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, at Delaware, O., from which he 
was graduated in June, 1866. He spent the 
next seven years in the work of teaching. 
In the fall of 1873 he was admitted into 
the Central Ohio Conference, and began his 
ministerial career at Ansonia, O., where he 
remained one year. He has since served at 
De Graff, twice at Bellefontaine, William 
Street, Delaware, and St. Paul's, Toledo, and 
was Presiding Elder of Toledo District for a 
full term. He was married to Miss Mattie L. 
Brand, of Urbana, April 30, 1868. Four 
children, three sons and one daughter, have 
blessed this union. Mary, the daughter, an 
unusually intelligent and womanly girl, after 
an illness of nearly two } 7 ears, passed to the 
angels, December 7, 1887. His present 
charge is one of the finest and most promi- 
nent in the Conference. In June, 1886, the 
Illinois Wesleyan University conferred upon 
him the degree of D.D. 




Joshua K. Wilson. 




Levin S. Mf.lson. 




Wm. M. Wori.f.Y. 




George L. Dobbins. 




C. C. McCabe. 




J. C. Leacock. 




J. D. Slayback 




Wm. T. Jewell. 




Nathan E. Lyman. 




Thos. H. Wentworth. 




Wm. H. Hickman. 




Wm. T. 'Atkinson. 




Wm. F. Clayton. 



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ABSALOM C. PHILLIPS, ESQ. 

Absalom C. Phillips, lay delegate from Ar- 
kansas Conference, is a native of East Ten- 
nessee, and was born October 12, 1842. He 
removed to Newton County, Ark., in 1859, 
and three years later entered the Union Army 
in the 1st Regiment, Arkansas Volunteer In- 
fantry. He served with distinction through 
several campaigns, and gained promotion to 
the rank of First Lieutenant. After his dis- 
charge from the service in August, 1865, he 
was appointed to the positions of clerk and 
sheriff of Newton County, Ark., which he 
filled for a period of ten years. The ability 
he displayed marked him out for higher serv- 
ice, and under the administration of 'Pres- 
ident Garfield he was appointed to the posi- 
tion of Receiver of Public Money for Har- 
rison, Ark., in the United States Land Office. 
Since his conversion, in 18H8, he has been a 
zealous and useful worker in the Church, joy- 
fully aiding its busy activities within and 
beyond his own community. 



LESLIE F. GAY, ESQ. 

Leslie F. Gay, one of the lay delegates of 
the Southern California Conference, was born 
in the State of Illinois, November 10, 1845. 
He Avas converted when a young man in Jen- 
nings Seminary, a Rock River Conference 
school. Here, also, he received the principal 
part of his education. In the year of 1872-73 
he had charge of the Commercial Department 
of that institution, but, his health failing, he 
was compelled to seek a more genial clime, 
and removed to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1874, 
where he has since resided. For many years 
he assisted in conducting the largest whole- 
sale fruit and produce business concern in 
Southern California, under the firm name of 
Woodhead & Gay. In these years he has 
been closely identified with Fort Street 

Methodist Episcopal Church — the mother of 

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Southern California Methodism — and has con- 
tinuously held "many of her most important 
offices. He is a man of intense spirituality, 
whose motto is "Holiness unto the Lord,' 1 
which, coupled with evangelistic methods, 
makes Methodism the Church for the people. 
He is at this elate a member of the Confer- 
ence Board of Chnrch Extension, a director 
of the Long Beach Methodist Resort Associa- 
tion, and President of the Young Peo] tie's 
Methodist Alliance of the Los Angeles Dis- 
trict. 



Rev. JAMES H. DEPUTIE. 

Rev. James H. Deputie, delegate from the 
Liberia Conference, was born at Barre Forge, 
Huntingdon County, Pa., May 8, 1838. His 
parents were well known in that section of 
country. Early in 1844 his father, Charles 
Deputie, with his family moved to. Hol- 
lidaysburg, where they lived until the lat- 
ter part of the year 1853, when they sailed 
from New York city for Liberia, landing in 
Monrovia on December 18. James was the 
oldest of a family of six children, three boys 
and three girls. In the month of September, 
1855, four of the older children were con- 
verted to God and joined the Church. The 
three boys became ministers, and have labored 
successfully among the heathen. 

In the month of December, 1858, Mr. 
Deputie was granted license to exhort while 
teaching school at Robertsport under the aus- 
pices of the American Colonization Society. 
On the 20th of October, 1859, he was united 
in marriage to a young lady from Augusta, Ga., 
Miss Mary Jane Dent, daughter of Roderick 
Dent, well known in that city. He was li- 
censed to preach in August, 18(30, and in 
February, 1865, joined the Liberia Conference 
and received as his first appointment a mission 
station among the Vey tribe. He remained 
there but one year, as war broke out among 
the natives, and as it was thought best by 
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was abandoned. For several years he lias 
labored with signal success anions;; the Bassa 
tribe. He was ordained deacon in 1867, and 
elder in 18(39 by Bishop J. W. Roberts. He 
was appointed by Bishop Haven Presiding 
Elder of the Bassa District in the year 1876, 
and in 1877 he returned to the United States, 
his first visit in twenty-four years. After an 
absence of ten months he re-entered his field 
of labor with renewed zeal and diligence. 
For many years he has served as Secretary of 
the Liberia Conference, and for twenty-three 
years has lived with his family among the 
heathen, fifteen miles from any civilized settle- 
ment. At Mount Olive he has the most in- 
teresting work among the natives connected 
with the Liberia Annual Conference. At the 
session of the Conference held in Monrovia 
in February, 1888, he was elected delegate by 
a very gratifying vote, and purposes returning 
with his family to his loved work in that land. 



SAMUEL M. TYLER, ESQ. 

Samuel M. Tyler, lay delegate from Wash 
ington Conference, was born in March, 1842, 
at West River, Anne Arundel County, Md. 
His parents were active members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and brought up 
their children in the Church of their choice. 
He was early converted, and joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Removing to 
Washington City shortly after the late war, 
he engaged in the manufacture of boots and 
shoes, in which business he continues to pros- 
per. He has been connected with the Asbury 
Church ever since his residence in Washing- 
ton, serving consecutively for over thirteen 
years in the office of class-leader and treasurer 
of the board of trustees. He has fully de- 
voted himself to the interests of his Church 
and the uplifting of his race. The Lay Elec- 
toral College of the Washington Conference 
elected him as their representative to the Gen- 
eral Conference by an almost unanimous vote. 



Rev. WILLIAM R. R. DUNCAN. 

Rev. William R. R. Duncan, first delegate 
from Little Rock Conference, was born in 
Union District, South Carolina, January 27, 
1857, and was converted at the age of twelve. 
He was the most devout child of the family. 
Early in 1870 his family removed to Arkansas 
and settled down in Howard County, Ark. 
He united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Centre Point under the pastorate 
of Rev. E. Roberts, the first preacher on this 
Circuit. He maintained his religious life 
amid strong temptations and with compara- 
tively slender helps. He was married to Miss 
A. G. Whitmore, who became an estimable 
help-meet. His primary studies were conduct- 
ed at the country school. In 1877 he was ad- 
mitted on trial in the Arkansas Conference 
held at Fort Smith, Ark., and appointed to 
Lonoke, Ark., by Bishop I. W. Wiley. He has 
since served at Magnolia, Lewisville, Sweet 
Home, Fayetteville Station, and Center Point, 
where in his opening ministry he spent one of 
his most successful terms. In 1885 he was 
appointed Presiding Elder of the Van Buren 
District by Bishop Mallalieu, to which his 
best energies have been since devoted. 



REV. JOHN G. ECKMAN. 

Rev. John G. Eckman, of the Wyoming 
Conference, and pastor at Kingston, Pa., was 
born near Sunbury, Pa., on October 7, 1836. 
His father being a farmer, he attended to 
farm toils until he became of sufficient age to 
teach school, which profession he followed 
until he entered the ministry, in the meantime 
attending school at intervals. He was con- 
verted when but thirteen years of age, and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
When twenty years of age he received license 
to preach, and three years later was emploj^ed 
by Rev. George Peck, D.D., to supply Stod- 
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In April, 1860, Mr. Eekman was received 
into the Wyoming Annual Conference, with 
which his relation has been continued until 
the present. He has served as pastor twenty- 
one years, and as Presiding Elder eight years. 
He has been honored by an election as dele- 
gate to four successive General Conferences, 
having been elected first in 1876. He was 
united in marriage with Miss Margaret L. 
Hile, and their children, four sons, are grown 
to manhood, the oldest of whom, Rev. George 
P. Eckman, is a popular and useful member 
of the Newark Annual Conference. 



W. A. BOYCE, ESQ. 

W. A. Boyce, lay delegate of the Vermont 
Conference, was born in Newbury, Vt., and 
brought up on a farm. He moved to Barre, 
Vt., in 1858, where he has since resided. 
After an ample course he was graduated from 
Barre Academy in 1868. For the next two 
years he taught school. Having succeeded in 
mastering the necessary studies, he commenced 
the practice of law in 1870. He has held 
various town offices, namely, Superintendent 
of Common Schools, town treasurer, and as- 
sessor. He represented the town of Barre in 
the State Legislature of 1872-73. He was con- 
verted at the age of seventeen, and has been a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Barre for twenty years, and superintendent 
of the Sunday-school for the past fifteen years. 
His efforts to aid every department of our 
work have been constant and praiseworthy. 



FREDERIC K. KELLER, ESQ. 

Frederic K. Keller, lay delegate of the 
East German Conference, was born near 
Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, in 1829. 
After the German revolution, in which he 
had taken an active part, he came to this 
country in 1850, and engaged in mercantile 



life as a provision dealer in New York city. 
He was converted to God soon after his 
arrival in this country, and joined the Ger- 
man Methodist Episcopal Church in Thirty- 
sixth Street, now Fortieth Street Church, 
New York, of which he has been a trustee, 
class-leader, steward, and Sunday-school teach- 
er ever since. He has been not only one of its 
most zealous workers, but has liberally given 
of his means to lift it into a plane of greater 
usefulness. For many years he was president 
of the German branch of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, director of the German 
Hospital, and director of a bank. He was 
also a lay delegate to the General Conference 
of 1872, besides filling other positions of trust. 
During the War of the Rebellion he served 
in Battery C, Fourth Regiment, New York 
Artillery. 



JOHN 0. BOOTH, ESQ. 

John Owen Booth, lay delegate of the 
Oregon Conference, was born in Lee County, 
la., January 18, 1848, and crossed the plains 
with his parents by ox-teams in 1852, reach- 
ing Oregon after a tedious journey of six 
months. He settled in Yam Hill County, 
and after living near the Grand Round Valley 
for a number of years he removed in the 
year 1867 to Wilbur, in the Umpqua Valley, 
Southern Oregon, where better educational 
advantages were to be had at the Academy 
founded by the Rev. J. H. Wilbur. He was 
deeply awakened to his need of salvation and 
happily converted in his early manhood, and 
has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church for twenty years. He has been espe- 
cially active in Sunday-school work, as teacher 
and superintendent. His father, the Rev. 
Robert Booth, was one of the jDioneers of the 
Oregon Conference. He is a willing sup- 
porter of all the benevolences of the Church, 
and shares in every good word and work. 
At the age of twenty-two he was elected 
Superintendent of the Public School District, 



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and takes a deep interest in the educational 
and temperance matters in Douglas County, 
where he has resided for many years on an 
excellent farm with his devoted wife and the 
three interesting children that have blessed 
their union. 



Rev. WILLIAM H. THOMAS. 

Rev. William H. Thomas, of the Delaware 
delegation, was born in Hollidaysburg, Pa., 
March 6, 1855. Converted at an early age, 
he united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and soon after felt a divine call to 
the ministry. Upon this work he entered 
with earnestness, and in it the Lord has 
crowned his labors with great success. In 
his Conference he ranks as an earnest 
preacher and an effective worker in the vine- 
yard of the Master. His self-sacrificing zeal 
and thorough consecration render him widely 
and warmly beloved. He has served the fol- 
lowing charges, any one of which would 
gladly hail his return : Port Deposit, Md. ; 
Cambridge, Md. ; Salem, N. J. ; Zoar, Phila- 
delphia, and Chestertown, Md. He was 
elected as a delegate to the General Confer- 
ence of 1888, and is the youngest member of 
the delegation except one. 



REV. WILLIAM F. CLAYTON. 

William F. Clayton, leader of the Missouri 
delegation, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
and received his education in the public 
schools of that city, except two years spent 
in Pennington Seminary. In January, 1866, 
through an invitation of Rev. N. Shumate, 
D.D., he went to Missouri. He was placed 
in charge of Brookfield, where he remained 
until Conference, which met in March, when 
he was admitted into the traveling connec- 
tion. From the time of entering the Confer- 
ence he has labored continuously within the 
bounds of the Missouri Conference, and has 



always enjoyed the confidence and patronage 
of his brethren. For a period of seventeen 
years he has filled the secretaryship of his 
Conference. In 1885 he was appointed by 
Bishop Fowler Presiding Elder of the Chilli- 
cothe District, in which field he still serves. 
His success in every department of church 
work has been marked and constant. He is 
interested in the cause of higher education, 
and is President of the Board of Regents of 
Cameron Institute, a seminary under the care 
and patronage of his Conference. He has 
kept its merits under the attention of the 
people all over the large district in which he 
travels, and the results have been exceedingly 
gratifying. 



REV. LEROY M. VERNON, D.D. 

Rev. Leroy M. Vernon, D.D., delegate from 
Italy Conference, was born near Crawfords- 
ville, Ind., April 23, 1838, went to Mount 
Pleasant, la., in 1852, and in 1855 entered the 
Ohio Wesley an University, being graduated 
five yeai*s later under Dr. Charles Elliott's 
presidency. Having pursued biblical studies 
in a theological department then in the uni- 
versity, he joined the Iowa Annual Confer- 
ence in 1860. During 1862-63 he was a 
pastor in St. Louis, Mo., declining a Greek 
professorship offered him, 1863, in McKeu- 
dree College. He was Presiding Elder, 
1864-66, in South-west Missouri, in a perilous 
region and at a critical time. In 1867-68 he 
was President of the St. Charles College, 
Missouri, and in 1869-70 pastor at Sedalia. 
In 1868 he declined an offered Chair of 
Latin Language and Literature in the State 
University of Missouri, of which he had been 
a curator; from the same he received the de- 
gree of D.D. in 1869. March 14, 1871, Dr. 
Vernon was appointed by Bishop Ames 
" Missionary and Superintendent of the mis- 
sion work of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
in Italy, 11 where he has since labored, residing 
in Rome. Just ten years after his appoint- 



REPRESENTA TIT 



nient the Italy Annual Conference was organ- 
ized. Dr. Vernon was a delegate to the Gen- 
eral Conferences of 1868, 1884, 1888, to the 
Ecumenical Conference, London, 1881, and 
member of the Book Committee, 1868-72. 



THOMAS W. JOHNSON, ESQ. 

Thomas W. Johnson, lay delegate of Ten- 
nessee Conference, was born October 10, 
1852, in Brentwood, Tenn., and remained 
there till the latter part of 1864. He was 
taken to Nashville by his father, and entered 
the school of Daniel Watkins, in which he 
studied till the formation of Fi>«k University. 
He pursued his studies in the latter for a 
period of five years, and then went home to 
Brentwood to assist his father in farming, 
returning at intervals to Fisk University till 
1872. He then commenced to teach in the 
public schools of Tennessee, and as an edu- 
cator received a large measure of success, till 
in 1880 he entered the Theological Depart- 
ment at Central Tennessee College. Since 
the close of his two years' study in this in- 
stitution he has been untiring in his efforts 
toward the uplifting of his race. He is now a 
local preacher of good standing in the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. 



EDWIN E. BENTLEY, ESQ. 

Edwin E. Bentley, lay delegate from the 
West Wisconsin Conference, was born in 
Schoharie County, N. Y., October 22, 1843, 
moved with his father's family to Wisconsin 
in the year 1855, and settled in La Crosse. 
He early determined to secure for himself 
a liberal education. Attending the public 
schools, and supplementing them with private 
instruction, he was able to enter sophomore 
in the Ohio Wesleyan University in the fall 
of 1862. He passed through college by his 
own exertions," and was graduated in 1865. 



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Dining I j is course he, with many of his 
school-mates, responded to the call in 1864 
for one hundred - day men, and spent four 
months in the service', most of the time doing 
garrison duty on Arlington Heights as a 
private of Company E, 145th Ohio National 
Guard. 

Returning home after graduation he was 
for a year principal of one of the ward 
schools, and in the fall of 1866 entered the 
Batavian Bank, with which he has since been 
connected, acting in the capacity of cashier 
for the past fifteen years. His election as 
first lay delegate was made while he was at 
home, was entirely unsolicited on his part, and 
therefore bespeaks the warm esteem in which 
he is held. 



REV. DE WITT C. OLMSTEAD. 

Rev. DeWitt C. Olmstead, A.M., of the 
Wyoming Conference, was born in Nichols, 
N. Y., May 15, 1826. He was converted from 
Universalism when sixteen years of age, un- 
der the ministry of Rev. E. G. Bush, of the 
Central New York Conference. He com- 
menced to labor as an exhorter and Sunday- 
school teacher immediately. At the age of 
eighteen he was licensed as a local preacher, 
and preached and conducted protracted meet- 
ings while pursuing his studies. He began 
his labors as pastor under the Presiding El- 
der in 1847, and two years later joined the 
Oneida Conference. He became a member 
of the Wyoming Conference at its formation, 
and is an honored member of that body at 
the present time. 

He has been in the effective ranks of the 
traveling ministry forty-one years, and still is 
vigorous and successful, and well maintains 
his reputation as a superior preacher and de- 
voted pastor. He is an earnest worker, and 
is loyal to Methodist doctrine and discipline. 
He has served two terms as Presiding Elder, 
and was also a delegate to the General Confer- 
ence in 1872. 



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CHARLES D. HAMMOND, ESQ. 

Charles D. Hammond, lay delegate from 
Troy Conference, is the second son of Rev. 
S. G. Hammond, a superannuated member 
of the Genesee Annual Conference, and a 
brother of Rev. Dr. Hammond, of the San 
Francisco depository. The Hammonds are of 
New England origin, their ancestor, Benjamin 
Hammond, having landed in Boston in 1632. 
Mr. Hammond was born in Rushford, N. Y., 
March 1, 1814, educated at Friendship Acad- 
emy, and joined the Church at Susquehanna, 
Pa. During the Civil War he enlisted as a 
private in the 136th Regiment, New York 
Volunteers. By direct order of the Secre- 
tary of War, he was soon detailed for special 
telegraph service at the front with major's 
pay. At the close of the war Mr. Ham- 
mond was honorably discharged, and re-entered 
the railroad service. He has held responsible 
positions with the Erie Railway, the Midland 
Railway, and for the last ten years has been 
Superintendent of the Delaware and Hudson 
Railways. His work within the Troy Con- 
ference has been varied and successful. He 
represented it in the General Conference of 
1884, and has faithfully promoted the inter- 
ests of the trusts reposed in him. 



WASHINGTON L. DAGGETT, ESQ. 

Washington L. Daggett, lay delegate from 
Maine Conference, was born in New Vine- 
yard, May 6, 1835. He was educated at the 
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, then under the 
presidency of Rev. H. P. Torsey, D.D., LL.D. 
He devoted several years to teaching, with 
marked success. He subsequently located 
himself in Strong, Franklin County, Me., and 
has ever since devoted himself to mercantile 
business. He has been a member of the Meth- 
odist Church for thirty-nine } T ears, and is now 
serving his twenty-third consecutive year as 
superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal 



Sunday-school, which is one of the largest in 
that part of the State. Mr. Daggett has but 
few equals in his adaptation and devotion to 
Sunday-school work. He is recognized as one 
of the leaders in the State in this department 
of Church work. For more than ten years he 
has been President of the Franklin CouDty 
Sunday-school Association, and for three 
years he served as County Secretary of the 
Maine State Sunday-school Association, and 
was accorded the high honor each year of 
furnishing the "model report." 

Mr. Daggett is a forcible speaker, and in 
response to repeated invitations has lectured 
considerably in connection with Sunday-school 
work before county and State conventions, and 
other important gatherings. 

In politics Mr. Daggett is a Republican, 
and has figured prominently in the politics of 
his State. He has represented with credit 
his district in the State Legislature. 



REV. STEPHEN 0. BENTON. 

Rev. Stephen Olin Benton, of the New 
England Southern delegation, was born at 
Middletown, Conn., April 30, 1849. Con- 
verted in early youth, he united with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Providence, 
R. I. At the age of seventeen years he re- 
ceived license as a local preacher at Stafford 
Springs, Conn. In March, 18/0, he was re- 
ceived on trial in the Providence (now called 
the New England Southern) Conference, and 
since that time has been continuously in the 
work of the pastorate. He represents the 
third generation of his family in the Methodist 
ministry. His grandfather, Rev. Erastus 
Benton, was a member of the New England 
Conference prior to the formation of the Prov- 
idence Conference, and was connected with 
the latter from its organization until his de- 
cease in 1884. His father, Rev. Josiah T. 
Benton, is now a superannuated member of the 
same body. The family are also represented 



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in the mission fields of Korea and Japan. Mr. 
Benton has been for the past four years the 
secretary of his Conference, and is at present 
pastor of the Chestnut Street Church in 
Providence. 



Rev. BERNARD KELLY. 

Rev. Bernard Kelly, of the South Kansas 
Conference, was born near Petersburg, Va., 
December 15, 1838, but has resided in the 
"West since his childhood. He was in Illinois 
when the Civil War broke out, and became 
captain of Company F, 103d Illinois Volunteer 
Infantry. During his service he was twice 
wounded, at Missionary Ridge and Dallas. 
He became a member of the Cincinnati Con- 
ference in 1866, and three years after was 
transferred to Kansas. Mr. Kelly has been 
stationed three years each at Emporia, Ottawa, 
and Fort Scott, and at Wichita and Winfleld. 
He served a full term as Presiding Elder on 
the Fort Scott District, and is in his third 
year on the Emporia District. He was a 
member of the General Conference of 1880, 
and served four years (1876-1880) as a mem- 
ber of the General Missionary Committee. 
He is one of the most active and efficient 
Methodist itinerants in Kansas, has taken 
a prominent part in the Kansas prohibition 
movement, and is well known in the political 
circles of that State as an ardent, progressive 
Methodist. 



JOHN 0. SPENCER, ESQ. 

John O. Spencer, lay delegate from Japan 
Conference, is a native of Pennsylvania. He 
was born at Lynn, Susquehanna County, 
July 11, 1858. His father was a farmer, and 
the son had his share of farm work in sum- 
mer and attended district school in winter. 
His subsequent education was gained at Key- 
stone Academy, Factory ville, Pa., and at 
Wyoming Conference Seminary, Kingston, 



Pa. He was graduated from the latter school 
in 1879, having previous to graduation been 
engaged for two years as principal of Bennett 
Grammar School at Luzerne, Pa. 

After graduation he was elected principal 
of Kingston High School, which position he 
held for one year, when he resigned it to 
accept a similar position in the Sherburne 
Academy and Free School at Sherburne, 
Chenango County, N. Y. He held this posi- 
tion for three years, when he was called to 
the mission work, and was appointed to our 
Tokio Anglo- Japanese College, Tokio, Japan. 
In the second year of his service here he was 
elected Principal, which position he has since 
held. 

In November, 1883, he was married to 
Miss Almedia Ruth Cushman, of Chenango 
County, N. Y., and she has shared his lot for 
five years in Japan with courage and cheer- 
fulness. 



JOHN MAHIN, Esq. 

John Mahin, lay delegate from Iowa Con- 
ference, was born December 8, 1833, in 
Noblesville, Ind. His parents located in Iowa 
in the year 1843, and when he was thirteen 
years of age he entered the office of the 
Bloomington Herald (now the Muscatine 
Journal, the name of the town and of the 
paper having in the meantime been changed) 
as an apprentice to the printing business. 
After five years of such service he became 
editor and part owner of the paper. He 
is still the editor, having had longer serv- 
ice on the press of Iowa than any other per- 
son now connected with it. In politics the 
Journal has been Republican since the organ- 
ization of the party, and it has also earnestly 
and courageously advocated and supported 
the prohibitory laws of the State. Mr. Mahin 
has been identified from youth with the 
Methodist Church, his most active service for 
it being rendered in the Sabbath-school. He 
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Conference, having served in the session at 
Baltimore in 1876. 

Mr. Mahin married Miss Anna Lee, of 
Johnson County, la., in September, 1864. 
She has been distinguished as a devoted and 
successful Woman's Christian Temperance 
Union worker in Iowa, having been recording 
secretary of the State organization. Four 
dutiful and beautiful children grace their 
pleasant and commodious home, overlooking 
the grand Mississippi River at Muscatine. 



REV. MAGNUS F. AHGREN. 

Rev. Magnus Fredrik Ahgren was horn in 
Norrkoping, Sweden, October 19, 1850. He 
was converted and joined the Church in 
March, 1871, and entered the ministry on trial 
in 1873. He was ordained deacon by Bishop 
Simpson at the session of Sweden Conference 
held in Wisby, Sweden, in 1875, and came to 
the United States in the following year, being 
appointed pastor of the Third Swedish Church 
in Chicago. At the session of the North-west 
Swedish Conference held in Galesburg, 111., 
1877, he was ordained elder by Bishop Peck. 
He returned to Sweden in 1879, and was 
appointed successively pastor of the church at 
Gene, pastor of the church at Upsala, the seat 
of the oldest and largest of the State Universi- 
ties in Sweden, in 1882, and Presiding Elder 
of Upsala District in 1884. He is the repre- 
sentative of the Sweden Conference. 



REV. JOHN C. LEACOCK. 

Rev. John C. Leacock, of Wyoming Con- 
ference, was born in Bloomsburg, Columbia 
County, Pa., and spent the years of his mi- 
nority almost exclusively on his father's farm, 
aiding in the support of a large family, and 
at the same time developing a constitution 
fitted for subsequent endurance. His educa- 
tion beyond that acquired in the common 



school was secured in his native State, at 
Dickinson Seminary, New Columbus Acad- 
emy, and AVyoming Seminary, several years 
of teaching being necessary to meet the ex- 
penses thus incurred. He entered the minis- 
try in 1865, and joined the Wyoming Confer- 
ence in 1866, of which he has since been an 
effective member. After laboring in various 
fields as pastor, he was appointed to Chenan- 
go District in 1885, and in 1888 was returned 
to that district to complete the term which 
had hitherto been marked by a large measure 
of success, and at the same session was elected 
delegate to the General Conference. 

Mr. Leacock is distinguished among his 
brethren as a faithful preacher, a judicious 
administrator, and is widely known and hon- 
ored for his unbending Christian integrity. 
He is a hater of shams, an antagonist of all 
evil, and courageously employs these qualities 
in his earnest advocacy of temperance and 
prohibition. 



THOMAS H. MURRAY, ESQ. 

Thomas H. Murray, first lay delegate from 
Central Pennsylvania Conference, wears the 
distinction of having risen through many diffi- 
culties to a position of eminent success when 
as yet but in manhood's prime. He was born 
April, 1845, and passed his youth chiefly on 
the farm with his parents. Animated by a 
strong purpose to equip himself for a profes- 
sional life, he bravely provided the necessary 
means by rafting timber, selling books, and 
teaching. Being graduated from Dickinson 
Seminary with the highest honors of his class, 
he pursued his legal studies, until in May, 1869, 
he was admitted as attorney, and five years 
later to the Supreme Court of the State. By 
a combination of strong qualities, he has risen 
to the front rank in his profession. Outside 
of professional life he has achieved results 
fraught with lasting benefit to the community. 
As a public lecturer he has secured wide- 
spread popularity, and devoted some of his 




J. O. Spencer. 




Earl Cranston. 




Geo. Reynolds. 




E. O. McIntire. 




G. S. Dearborn. 




Wiley M. Christian. 




John L. Fuller. 



PLATE 




James N. FitzGerald. 




Sia Sek Ong. 



/ A 




S. Van Benschoten. 




Jas. Marvin. 




W. A. Spencer. 



XVI. 




Leslie F. Gay. 




E. W. S. Hammond. 




Jas. H. Deputie. 




W. L. Daggett. 



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best efforts to the advocacy of temperance 
reform. During his connection with our 
Church at Clearfield he has filled some of its 
most responsible offices with unvarying zeal 
and efficiency. In June, 1884, he was made 
one of the board of directors of Dickinson 
Seminary. 



NEWTON R. PERSINGER, ESQ. 

Newton R. Persinger, lay delegate of the 
North Nebraska Conference, is the second son 
of John Milton and Mary M. Persinger, and 
was born near Sidney, Shelby County, O., 
May 15, 1838. His early studies included an 
ample course in Iowa Conference Seminary, 
from which he was graduated in 1858. Dur- 
ing the Civil War he served for nearly four 
years in the 20th Ohio Infantry. His career 
in Nebraska dates from July, 1871, at which 
time he located in Central City, where he has 
since spent his energies and had his home. 
In January, 1873, he married Miss Harriet F. 
Jewell, and in the winter of that year both 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
From time to time his abilities have been 
faithfully employed in discharging the duties 
of important public offices. In 1873 he was 
elected County Clerk, and served as such for 
four years. For six years he acted as Regent 
of the State University of Nebraska. He 
was also one of the six delegates to the 
National Republican Convention in 1880, and 
helped to nominate James A. Garfield. He 
has been devoted to the banking business 
since 1877. 



THOMAS H. WENTWORTH, ESQ. 

Thomas H. Wentworth, lay delegate from 
East Maine Conference, was born in Piscata- 
quis Count} r , Me., in 1837. He was educated 
iu the common schools and academies of his 
native State. In 1861 he volunteered, and 
was mustered into the Union Army, and 
served as Sergeant and Lieutenant in the 15th 

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Regiment of Maine Infantrv until March, 
1 865, when he was honorably discharged. 
On leaving the army he commenced the study 
of law, and was admitted to the bar of Penob- 
scot County, Me., in 1867. He has been in 
active practice since that time. He was a 
member of the House of Representatives of 
Maine in 1877, serving on the Judiciary Com- 
mittee, and was elected a State Senator from 
Penobscot County in 1883, serving on the 
Judiciary Committee, and as Chairman of 
the Committee on the Revision of the Revised 
Statutes of Maine, and at the same session 
was chosen a member of a commission to 
complete the revision and superintend the 
printing and publication of said statutes. 
He was also chairman of this commission. 
He has served as Supervisor of Schools, Chair- 
man of Selectmen, and treasurer of his town, 
and in all things adheres to the "golden 
rule." 



Rev. BERT E. WHEELER. 

Bert E. Wheeler, delegate from the West 
Wisconsin Conference, was born near Madison, 
W T is., August 23, 1848. W T hile he was yet a 
boy his parents moved to New York, where 
he received his education. He joined the 
West Wisconsin Conference in 1870, and has 
been in active service ever since. His work 
has been as varied as that of most Western 
preachers, ranging from the circuit, with its 
scattered appointments and long drives, to 
the more comfortable city station. For seven 
years he has served as secretary of his 
Annual Conference. At present he is Presid- 
ing Elder of the Platte ville District. He 
comes of Methodist stock of preaching fame. 
His father, Rev. N. M. Wheeler, and older 
brother, Rev. F. M. Wheeler, are members of 
the Central New York Conference, a younger 
brother is pastor of a leading Presbyterian 
Church in Nebraska, and a still younger 
brother, Dr. N. M. Wheeler, died at his post 
in California nearly two years ago. 



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Rev. SAMUEL P. COLVIN. 

Rev. Samuel P. Colvin, who leads the 
delegation of North-west Indiana Conference, 
is a native of Warren County, 0 , and was 
born March 22, 1831. His conversion and 
union with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
took place in the year 1850. Following those 
important events came his earnest efforts in 
Christian work and call to the ministry. He 
was admitted to the North-west Indiana Con- 
ference in 1863, ordained deacon by Bishop 
Baker in 1861, and elder by Bishop Ames in 
1866. Seven years of his early ministry were 
profitably spent on circuits, and the remaining 
eighteen on stations and as Presiding; Elder. 
The tact and energy displayed and successes 
won in all these capacities have made him 
conspicuous in the rapid growth of our Church 
in that territory, and greatly endeared him to 
a wide circle. 



Hon. WARNER MILLER. 

Hon. Warner Miller, one of the lay dele- 
gates from Northern New York Conference, 
is of German descent. His ancestors settled in 
this country previous to the Revolutionary 
War. His great-grandfather was a Colonel in 
that war, and had his dwelling occupied by 
General Washington as headquarters. Mr. 
Miller was born in Oswego County, N. Y., in 
August, 1838, and educated in Union College, 
from which he was graduated in 1860. After 
teaching for some time in the Fort Edward 
Collegiate Institute, he entered the army, and 
during his period of service gained promotion 
to the rank of Lieutenant. Returning home, 
he took a deep interest in political questions 
and movements. He was delegate to several 
State Conventions, and served in the Forty- 
sixth and Forty-seventh sessions of Congress, 
until the Legislature in 1881 elected him 
United States Senator. In this responsible 
position he has won a wealth of gratitude 
and fame by his introduction of new popular 



measures and his earnest and successful advo- 
cacy of necessary civil service reforms. 

For more than thirty years he has been an 
active member, a generous supporter, and a 
willing worker in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Herkimer. 



REV. WILLIAM R. LATHROP. 

Rev. William Riley Lathrop, who is a 
delegate from the South-east Indiana Con- 
ference, was born in Madison, Ind., August 
30, 1839. His parents not being in affluent 
circumstances, his educational advantages 
were decidedly limited. When sixteen 
years of age he entered the ship-yard at 
Madison, where he learned the ship-carpen- 
ter's and caulker's trade, which he followed 
until 1870. During the Avar he was in the 
government employ in the mechanics' corps 
upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. In 
the spring of 1870 he resigned the position 
of foreman in the Madison ship-yard to enter 
the itinerancy, and in September was received 
on trial into the South-west Indiana Con- 
ference. His ministry has been one of emi- 
nent usefulness, and his career commands for 
him large influence among his brethren. He 
is now the esteemed pastor of the Church at 
Milton. 



Rev. WILLIAM L. DIXON. 

Rev. William L. Dixon, of East Ohio Con- 
ference delegation, was born in Sandy ville, O., 
February 1, 1835, of Methodist parents. He 
studied at Mt. Union College, and is a gradu- 
ate of Scio College. He is a member of the 
board of control of both of these institutions, 
and has been a trustee of Scio almost since its 
commencement in 1867. In 1862 he entered 
the army, and served as Captain of Company 
E, 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His 
entrance upon the ministry took place in 
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Pittsburgh Conference. He was pastor at 
Scio, East Springfield, Carrollton, Coshocton, 
Cadiz, and Canton each three years, and is now 
in his fourth year in the Presiding Eldership 
on Cambridge District. His earnest labors in 
this field have been bountifully blessed of 
God, and there has been a liberal advance in 
all benevolences, a general improvement in 
Church property, and advancement in salaries, 
with the smallest deficiency of any district in 
the Conference. He has the honor of being 
one of a committee of five who have in charge 
" a day for Methodism in the Ohio Centennial." 

Mr. Dixon was married to Miss M. E. 
Keplinger, and their home has been bright- 
ened with three sons and one daughter. Two 
of the sons are good business men, and the 
youngest is yet in school. 



REV. JAMES MARVIN, D.D., LL.D. 

James Marvin, D.D., LL.D., delegate from 
Kansas Conference, was born August 17. 
1820, in Peru, Clinton County, N. Y. He 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
in early youth at Port Jackson, where his 
parents were members. He interspersed 
teaching with study and work on the farm, 
until his graduation at Allegheny College in 
1851. His public life thus far shows him 
Professor of Mathematics at Alfred Univer- 
sity, New York, from 1851 until he became 
superintendent of the city schools of Warren, 
O., in 1854; then Professor of Mathematics 
in Allegheny College in 1862; Chancellor of 
the University of Kansas in 1874; Superin- 
tendent of Haskell Institute in 1883, and 
pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal 
Church in Lawrence in 1885. Dr. Marvin 
entered Erie Annual Conference in 1863, and 
was appointed as Professor in Allegheny Col- 
lege until transferred to the Kansas Confer- 
ence and recognized as President of the State 
University at Lawrence, Kan., where he now 
resides. He was licensed as a local preacher 



in 1846, represented Erie Conference in the 
General Conference of 1872, and the Kansas 
Conference in that of 1888. 



JOHN R. LINDGREN, ESQ. 

John R. Lindgren, lay delegate from the 
North-west Swedish Conference, was born in 
Chicago, 111., in the year 1855. At the age 
of fifteen he joined the First Swedish Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church of Chicago. In 1875 
he removed to Evanston, 111., and joined the 
Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church of that 
city, where he now resides. Besides being 
chairman of the board of trustees of the 
church to which he belongs, he has been for 
many years trustee and treasurer of the 
Swedish Methodist Episcopal Theological 
School located in Evanston. He is ensealed 
in the banking business, and is a member of 
the firm of Haugan & Lindgren, bankers, in 
Chicago. He is a generous supporter of the 
Church, and is highly honored by a wide 
circle, who recognize in him the qualities of a 
leader. 



Rev. FRANK M. BRISTOL, A. M. 

Frank Milton Bristol was born in Orleans 
Count} 7 , N. Y., January 4, 1851, of Scotch- 
English ancestry. His Methodist tendencies 
are inherited from the third generation back. 
His father was a merchant and an editor, 
who moved to Illinois in 1857. He was con- 
verted during a revival in Kankakee, 111., in 
1868, under the ministry of Rev. J. H. More. 
Responding to a call to preach the Gospel, 
having enjoyed a good public school educa- 
tion he entered the North-western Univer- 
sity, and after a course of seven years 1 study 
was graduated with the degree of Ph.B. 
Subsequently the University conferred upon 
him the honorary degree of A.M. He joined 
the Rock River Conference in 1877, and was 
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remained two years. He afterward served 
the Wabash Avenue Church in Chicago three 
years, Trinity Church three years, and is 
closing his third year at Grace Church. He 
was married to Miss Nellie Frisbie, of Mor- 
gan Park, 111., in 1878, and traveled in Europe 
in 1881. He takes a deep interest in art and 
literature, and has the reputation of a biblio- 
phile. He possesses an extensive library of 
rare books in English literature, and is a stu- 
dent of Shakespeare, and the author of a 
critical and historical work on the tragedy of 
Richard III. He was elected delegate to 
the General Conference of 1888 by the Rock 
River Annual Conference. 



Rev. HOMER EATON, D.D. 

Rev. Homer Eaton, D.D., was born in 
Euosburg, Vt., November 16, 1834. He was 
converted at the age of sixteen years, and 
soon thereafter felt himself called to the 
work of the Christian ministry. He com- 
menced his preparatory studies at the Acad- 



REV. WILLIAM A. STEPHENS. 

Rev. William A. Stephens, of the Central 
Pennsylvania Conference delegation, was born 
in Huntingdon Couuty, Pa., December 15, 
1835. His early life was spent on a farm. 
After reaching his majority he attended school 
at Rainsbutg, Bedford County, Pa., and Car- 
lisle, Pa. After leaving school he read law, 
and was admitted to practice. In the fall of 
1865 he went to Missouri, ami in 1870 joined 
the St. Louis Conference. On January 1, 
1877, he was transferred to the Central 
Pennsylvania Conference, where he has done 
most faithful service and taken a prominent 
position. In all his fields of labor he has 
shown himself to be "a workman that needeth 
not to be ashamed. 1 ' He is now in his fourth 
year as Presiding Elder of the Williarnsport 
District. 



emy in Bakersfield, Vt., and finished them at 
the Methodist General Biblical Institute in 
Concord, N. H., joining the Troy Annual 
Conference in 1857. He was chosen secretary 
of his Conference soon after his graduation to 
elders orders, and held the position for many 
years. He was elected a delegate to the 
General Conference of 1872, and was by that 
Conference chosen one of the fraternal dele- 
gates to the General Conference of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church of Canada. He was 
elected a reserve delegate to the General 
Conference of 1876, and a delegate to the 
General Conferences of 1880, 1884, and 1888. 
He was elected a member of the Book Com- 
mittee by the General Conference of 1880, 
and re-elected to that position in 1884. He 
was chairman of the Book Committee from 
1880 to 1884. He was appointed a member 
of the Commission of General Conference 
Entertainment in 1884, and elected secretary 
of the commission. He was a delegate to the 
first Ecumenical Methodist Conference held 
in London, England, in 1881. He received 
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the 
Syracuse University in 1878. 

Dr. Eaton has long held a leading position 
in the Troy Conference, serving many of the 
prominent churches as pastor, and two full 
terms as Presiding Elder. He is now pastor 
of our lar^e and flourishing church in the 
city of Burlington, Vt. 



DANIEL E. WILSON, ESQ. 

Daniel E. Wilson, lay delegate from the 
Missouri Conference, was born near S;dano, 
Centre County, Pa., on the 27th day of Feb- 
ruary, 1830. In 1836 he, with his parents, 
moved to Wayne County, O. Here he re- 
ceived a common school education, grew to 
manhood, and in March, 1858, moved to Ma- 
con, Missouri, where he has since resided. His 
parents were members of the Methodist 
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father, Mark Wilson, being steward, class- 
leader, and extorter for fifty years. They 
were pious and devoted Christians, of whom 
any son or daughter might well be proud. Mr. 
"Wilson was in early childhood trained to 
promptness and punctuality, which habits 
have distinguished him thus far through life. 
When at home his place in the Sabbath- 
school, church, and social meetings is never 
vacant, and he is a stanch supporter in every 
good. work. 



EBEN M. TIBBETTS, Esq. 

Eben M. Tibbetts, lay delegate from the 
East Maine Conference, is an enterprising and 
successful merchant, who was born in Dexter, 
Penobscot County, Me., May 21, 1834, and 
was left an orphan at the age of two years. 
His education was received in the common 
schools and academies. He was converted in 
Boston in 1858, under the labors of Bishop 
Warren, then pastor of North Russell Street 
Church. He was in the employ of the East- 
ern Express Company ten years, until re- 
ceiving appointment as postal clerk from the 
United States government. After serving 
five years he resigned to engage in the busi- 
ness of manufacturing and selling furniture 
and as undertaker in his native town. He 
has held the offices of class-leader, Sunday- 
school superintendent, steward, and recording 
secretary and trustee in the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and was for nine years elected 
by his townsmen one of the selectmen of his 
town, being chairman of the board for seven 
years. 



JOHN L. FULLER, ESQ. 

John L. Fuller, the lay delegate from the 
Liberia Conference, is the eldest and only 
surviving son of John A. and Pauline Fuller, 
who emigrated to Liberia from Norfolk, Va., 
and was born in the city of Monrovia, Re- 
public of Liberia, June 11, 1852. In 1856 



his father, while on a visit to America, died, 
and in 1860 his mother returned to Norfolk. 
In 1868 he was elected runner to the House 
of Representatives, and in 1873 entered and 
served as a clerk in the well known mercantile 
business of Messrs. J. L. Crusoe & Bio., of 
Edina, Grand Bassa, and subsequently as a 
partner in the branch business at Greenville, 
Sinou. In 1876 he was married to the only 
daughter of Hon. S. A. Horace, of Buchanan, . 
Grand Bassa. He was elected as Senator to 
represent the County of Sinou in the Liberian 
Legislature in 1881, and was re-elected in 
1885. In 1882 he was converted, and having 
been taught the principles of Methodism in 
his youth joined a branch of the Church in 
Greenville, and at present holds several posi- 
tions (if responsibility. 



MORRIS L. RITCHIE, ESQ. 

Morris L. Ritchie was elected a reserve lay 
delegate from the Kansas Conference, and 
took the seat to which Amanda C. Rippey 
was elected. He is a son of Rev. Hender- 
son Ritchie, of the Central Illinois Confer- 
ence, who was a member of the General 
Conferences of 1868 and 1872. He was born 
at Lewistown, Fulton County, 111., in 1858, 
and was named for Bishop Morris. He re- 
ceived an academic education. He removed to 
Kansas in 1875, and studied law with Hon. 
John T. Bradley, now of Topeka, Kan., and 
with Hon. M. B. Nicholson, now Judge of 
the Eighth Judicial District of that State, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1879, at the age 
of twent}*-one. Since that time he has been 
engaged exclusively in the practice of law. 
He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Macomb, 111., under the ministry of the 
Rev. B. C. Dennis, and on removing to 
Kansas was one of the first eight members of 
a class organized at Council Grove, Kan., in 
1876, the Rev. G. S. Dearborn, one of the 
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General Conference being the Presiding Elder 
of the District covering that territory. From 
this small beginning, under much difficulty 
and many discouragements, has grown up a 
strong church in Council Grove of people 
who love the Methodist Episcopal Church, as 
distinguished from other branches of Meth- 
odism to be found in that place. Morris L. 
Ritchie has been recording steward of that 
society nearly since its first organization, and 
has been for years and is now a teacher in 
the Sunday-school and a class-leader. 



WILLIAM T. ATKINSON, M.D. 

William T. Atkinson was born January 
23, 1848, near Gallipolis, O., of Methodist 
parentage, and attended the common schools 
and Academy of Gallipolis. When twenty 
years of age he went to Lexington, Mo., to 
study medicine under the instructions of his 
uncle, J. F. Atkinson, M.D., who was also a 
Methodist. He attended one session of the 
St. Louis Medical College, in 1870-71, and 
one session in Kansas City, where he was 
graduated, March 28, 1872. He joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, 
W.Va., in 1875, and removed to Kentucky in 
the year following. In 1876 lie was united 
in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Prater, who 
was also of Methodist parentage. He has 
resided at Paintsville, county-seat of Johnson 
County, Ky., for several years. He repre- 
sents the Kentucky Conference, by which he 
was elected a reserve lay delegate at its 
recent session. 



CHAPLAIN C. C. McCABE. 

Rev. Charles C. McCabe, D.D., delegate 
from the New York Conference, was bom 
October 11, 1836, in Athens, O. He entered 
the Ohio Conference in 1860, and was sta- 
tioned at Putnam. In 4862 he became Chap- 



lain in the 122d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
At the battle of Winchester, Va., in June, 
1863, while looking after the wounded on the 
field, he was captured and taken to Libby 
Prison, where he remained a captive for over 
four months. After his release he rejoined 
his regiment at Brandy Station, but with 
broken health was sent back to the hospital 
at Washington. He was invited, after partial 
recovery, to speak at an anniversary of the 
Christian Commission, and George H. Stuart, 
president of that organization, asked Secre- 
tary Stanton to grant him permission to make 
the tour of the great cities of the Union in 
the interest of that cause. After the war he 
re-entered the regular work of the ministry, 
and was stationed at Portsmouth, O. In 
1866 the Ohio Conference called him into the 
service of the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 
1868 the Board of Church Extension asked 
that he might be appointed to aid Dr. Kynett 
in building up that cause. For sixteen years 
he traveled through the length and breadth 
of the land, and saw the work advance with 
unexampled prosperity upon every side. In 
1884 he was elected Missionary Secretary. 
Through his matchless inspiration and efforts 
the cry, "A million for missions," once a 
prophecy, is now one of the brightest facts of 
our history. The magnitude and grandeur 
of his heroic achievements will insure to him 
a meed of fame as lasting in duration as it 
i> wide-spread in extent and glowing in char- 
acter. 



REV. ENOS T. ADAMS. 

Rev. Enos T. Adams, of the Maine Confer- 
ence delegation, was born in Wilton, Me., 
July 9, 1838. His facilities for an education 
were limited, but his ambition to make the 
most of nature's endowments largely sur- 
mounted the obstacles before him. He was 
educated in the common schools, by private 
instruction, and at Wilton Academy. He 
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and success, devoting much of his time for 
seven years to this work. His earlier train- 
ing in life was not specially adapted to the 
development of a religious character, for his 
father, though highly respected, was atheist- 
ical in his views. He became a devoted 
Christian, however, in later years. His mother 
had embraced Christ at an early age, but her 
Christian life for many years was only a form 
and not a living experience. Though sur- 
rounded by such early influences, Brother 
Adams was converted at the a^e of fifteen 
years through the dying exhortation of a be- 
loved and faithful Christian sister. He first 
united with the Methodist Protestant Church, 
hokliuo- his connection here till 1865, when 
he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and entered the itinerant ministry as a mem- 
ber of the Maine Conference. He has been 
in the pastoral work twenty-one years, and 
has steadily advanced in positions, having 
filled many of the leading appointments of 
the Conference. As a preacher and a Chris- 
tian worker he is earnest, devoted, and 
effective. 

Seldom, if ever, has the Maine Conference 
been blessed with the membership of one who, 
in the same number of years, has achieved 
greater success in winning souls and enlarg- 
ing Zion. During his period of pastoral work 
he has had more than two thousand persons 
at the altar for prayers, and at least one thou- 
sand newly converted ones added to his 
churches. Brother Adams is now serving his 
third successful year as Presiding Elder of 
the Lewiston District. 



BENAJAH SHEATS, ESQ. 

Benajah Sheats, lay delegate from Alabama 
Conference, was born in Alabama, March 30, 
1832, and received such education as the 
common schools of his county afforded. He 
was married in January, 1850, and has five 
daughters and one son, all members of the 



Methodist Episcopal Church. He was con- 
verted in 1855, and joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, South, filling in it the po- 
sitions of trustee, class-leader, and local 
preacher. The war disorganized the Church 
in that section of country, and when the 
Methodist Episcopal Church was reorganized 
in the South he and all his family united 
with it at the earliest opportunity. He trav- 
eled the circuit as a supply for the first two 
years, and again in 1876 and 1877. He was 
elected delegate to the General Conference 
that met in Cincinnati in 1880, and was or- 
dained local deacon by Bishop Foss at the 
Annual Conference held at Ed wards ville, 
Ala., 1884. He is a farmer by occupation, 
and has held several civil offices of honor and 
trust. 



Rev. SIA SEK ONG. 



Rev. Sia Sek Ong stands alone in the Gen- 
eral Conference as a representative of a na- 
tion of 400,000,000 people. As delegate from 
Foochow, China, he represents his Conference 
of forty-two ordained preachers, and a mem- 
bership and adherents to Christianity of over 
four thousand in the Fukien Province. He 
is a scholar, and ranks among the literati of 
his country. He is forty-eight years old, has 
a Christian wife, and six lovely children. At 
the age of twenty-two he first became per- 
sonally interested in Christianity while en- 
gaged in teaching the Chinese language to 
Dr. Sites, who baptized him twenty-four years 
ago. The following year Dr. Sites gave him 
exhorter's license, of which Mr. Sia afterward 
said, " I scarcely knew what the paper meant, 
but I was soon fully convinced that preaching 
the Gospel was the only work that would 
satisfy my soul." He was ordained by Bishop 
Kingsley in 1869. He now so longed to ad- 
vance the cause of self-suj)port that in the 
following year he cast himself and family 
upon his native membership for support, 
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akin to those experienced by the apostle 
Paul. 

He lias served in Lis Conference as a Pre- 
siding Elder for the last fourteen years, and 
was elected to this General Conference on the 
first ballot. On account of the attitude of 
our government toward the Chinese, he had 
difficulty in securing passage on the steamer 
at Hong Kong, Dr. Sites being obliged to give 
bonds for return passage in case he was sent 
back. In San Francisco his official reception 
Avns such that he despaired of being permit- 
ted to set foot upon our shore-:. He has jour- 
neyed through our country, visited our homes 
and Sunday-schools, churches and colleges, 
the Senate Chamber, and the President in the 
Executive Mansion, and from the results of 
his observation and study has been led, ador- 
ingly, to exclaim, "Blessed is that nation 
whose God is the Lord ! " 



LUCIUS H. ROGERS, Esq. 

Lucius Henry Rogers, first lay delegate 
from North Nebraska Conference, was born 
in Fayetteville, N. Y., March 20, 1834. His 
father, Rev. Lucius C. Rogers, was one of 
the early members of the Oneida Conference. 
When twenty-three years of age Mr. Rogers 
moved to Fremont, Neb., where he united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
since that time has been one of the strong 
men in the Methodism of his adopted State. 
He was one of the founders of the First 
National Bank of Fremont, and has always 
been closely connected with its interests, 
holding the positions, at different times, of 
cashier, vice-president, and manager. At 
present he has retired from active business. 
He is trustee in the Nebraska Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, and also the Nebraska Central Col- 
lege. His religious life has been spotless, and 
full of good deeds which have greatly pro- 
moted the interests of the Church he has 
loved and served. 



REV. HORACE M. DANFORTH. 

Rev. Horace M. Danforth, delegate from 
Northern New York Conference, was born in 
Fort Covington, Franklin County, N. Y., No- 
vember 8, 1827. His parents were among 
the early Methodists of Northern New York. 
He was converted and united with the 
Church in 1854. Within a year after his con- 
version he was licensed to preach, and in 
1856 was admitted on trial to the Black 
River Conference. In 1863, in answer to the 
call for men, he left the pulpit and went into 
the army as Second Lieutenant, in Company 
M, 6th Heavy Artillery, New York Volun- 
teers. He was soon promoted to First Lieu- 
tenant and then to Captain. He served to 
the close of the war, returning home and to 
his place in his Conference in the spring of 
1866. By a change in the Conference boun- 
daries he was four years a member of the 
Central New York Conference, and then by 
another change he fell within the bounds of 
the Northern New York. Among the later 
charges he has served are Camden, two full 
terms, Adams, Fulton, Oswego, and East 
Herkimer. He was two years Presiding 
Elder of the Rome District, and is now in his 
third year as Presiding Elder of the Oswego 
District. A rich harvest of results has been 
borne by his earnest and continuous efforts. 



Rev. JAMES W. DAY. 

Rev. James W. Day, first delegate from 
East Maine Conference, was born on Novem- 
ber 28, 1835, in the town of Unity, Me. He 
was received into the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in February, 1854, and in due time 
was licensed to exhort and to preach. After 
supplying for two years under the Presiding 
Elder he was received on trial in the East 
Maine Conference in 1860, and admitted in 
full in 1862. He has held high rank in his 
Conference, filling some of the best appoint- 




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merits and discharging the duties of varied 
offices of trust with fidelity and acceptance. 
He is now serving bis sixth year in the Pre- 
siding Eldership, and in this capacity has 
gained an enviable record. 



CHARLES L. HENRY, ESQ. 

Charles L. Henry, a lay delegate from the 
North Indiana Conference, resides at Ander- 
son, Ind., and is a lawyer. He was born July 
1, 1849, and is a native of his present State. 
His father was born in Ireland, of Protestant 
stock. His mother was of English descent. 
After the usual course of common school in- 
struction, Mr. Henry was a student in the 
Literary Department of Indiana Asbury Uni- 
versity, and afterward, in 1872, was gradu- 
ated from the Law Department of the Indiana 
State University. Since that time he has been 
devoted to the practice of his profession, and 
fills a large sphere in the community. In 
1880 he was elected State Senator, and served 
a four years 1 term, but has never held any 
other political office. He has been a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church from child- 
hood, and has served as Sunday-school super- 
intendent during thirteen years. His devotion 
to this and every other department of Church 
work has been steady and untiring. This is 
the first time that he has been a member of 
the General Conference. 



ELISHA L. BRIDDELL, ESQ. 

Elisha L. Briddell, lay delegate from Dela- 
ware Conference, is the son of Joseph and 
Susan E. Briddell, and was born July 8, 1855, 
in the town of Berlin, Worcester County, Md. 
He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church 
May 28, 1868, and has been a faithful mem- 
ber since that time. He has been for nine con- 
secutive years a steward, trustee, and Sunday- 
school superintendent of his church. He is a 
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graduate of the Grammar School in his town 
and also took two years' private instruction 
under Edward Martin, LL.D., after which he 
entered the examination of his county for the 
position of teacher. After passing a first-class 
examination he was given the principalship 
of the leading school in his county. He has 
been once elected as delegate to the State 
Educational Convention of Maryland, held in 
the city of Baltimore, January, 1884. His 
church has honored him twice by sending him 
as delegate to the Lay Electoral Conferences 
of 1884 and 1888, at the latter of which he 
was elected a delegate to the General Confer- 
ence. On April 13, 1887, he was married by 
Rev. W. H. Coffey, to Laura D., eldest 
daughter of Amos and Sallie Brevard. He 
enjoys the confidence and respect of all who 
know him, and ranks high among the success- 
ful educators. 



Rev. GEORGE S. DEARBORN. 

Rev. George S. Dearborn, of the Kansas 
delegation, is of English extraction, and a 
descendant of John Rogers the martyr. He 
was born in Thornton, Grafton County, N. II., 
October 31, 1822. His parents were in 
humble circumstances, and did not experience 
the consolation of religion till they were more 
than forty years of age, a result largely owing 
to the decrees of Calvinism. His early life 
was spent on the farm, and his education se- 
cured in the public schools of Grafton County, 
N. H., and at higher institutions in Plymouth, 
N. H., and Andover, Mass. He was con- 
verted in January, 1842, and received into 
the Methodist Episcopal Church by Rev. H. 
H. Hartwell. He was received on probation 
in the New Hampshire Conference in June, 
1843, and admitted into full connection two 
years later. Since that time he has continued 
on the " effective " list. He was married to 
Miss Sarah A. Briggs, of Holderness, N. H., 
in June, 1848. He has served all grades of 
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from the lowest to the highest. Since his 
transfer to the Kansas Conference, in 1865, 
he lias served on Lawrence, Manhattan, and 
Atchison stations, and Manhattan and Salina 
Districts full terms, and is at present on the 
Topeka District, He filled the position of 
secretary of Kansas Conference in 1868 and 
1869 ; was delegate to General Conference in 
1872 and 1888, and reserve delegate in 1880 
and 1884. He was member of school boards 
several times in towns and cities of New 
Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Kansas. For 
several years he was trustee of the New 
Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female 
College. He also acted as trustee of Barker 
University, at Baldwin, Kan., for ten years, 
being for the last half of this time presi- 
dent of the board. 

Mr. Dearborn has been an active worker 
in the temperance cause, and a pronounced 
and earnest Prohibitionist for many years. 
From time to time the highest positions have 
been intrusted to him. He shared in the 
work of securing the Constitutional Amend- 
ment for the State of Kansas, and has done 
much to secure the rigid enforcement of the 
prohibitory law. 



Rev. ABEL W. POTTLE. 

Rev. Abel W. Pottle, of the Maine Confer- 
ence, was born in Salem, Me., September 23, 
1834. He was converted at the age of fifteen 
years, and joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. His school advantages were limited, 
but by close application to study at home he 
fitted himself to teach at the age of eighteen, 
and soon gained the reputation of being one of 
the most successful teachers in his county. 
He subsequently pursued his studies at the 
Farmington Academy and Maine Wesleyan 
Seminary, and took a theological course in the 
institution now known as the Theological 
School of Boston University, graduating with 
honor in 1861. He was received on proba- 



tion in the Maine Conference the same year, 
and has now spent twenty-seven years of unin- 
terrupted and eminently successful work in 
the Methodist itinerancy. He has filled several 
of the leading appointments of his Conference 
and served the Augusta District as Presiding 
Elder four years. 

As a preacher he is practical, thoughtful, 
clear, and systematic, seldom failing to hold 
the intense interest of his hearers. As a 
pastor he is free, social, and inspiring among 
his people. As a Presiding Elder his admin- 
istration has been judicious and characterized 
by executive ability. He is a safe counselor, 
and has twice represented his Conference on 
the floor of the General Conference of the 
Church. 



GEORGE L. KNOX, ESQ. 

George L. Knox, lay delegate from Lexing- 
ton Conference, was born in Wilson County, 
Tenn., September 16, 1841. His parents were 
Christians, and he was from a very early age 
the subject of religious training, being con- 
verted in 1872. He came to Indiana in 1864, 
and began the business of a barber. In this 
he built up a large and prosperous busi- 
ness. He has always taken a prominent part 
in the Church, having filled the offices of 
steward and trustee. He removed to Indian- 
apolis, his present residence, in 1884, where 
he soon attracted attention as a capable busi- 
ness man. Mr. Knox is affable and genial, 
and possesses many traits of character which 
render him respected and popular among his 
fellow-citizens. 



Rev. WILBUR F. MARKHAM. 

Rev. Wilbur F. Markham, delegate from 
Northern New York Conference, was born of 
Methodist parentage, August 6, 1838, in West 
Turin, Lewis County, N. Y. His conversion 
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meeting held in the town of Steuben, Oneida 
County, N. Y. He was licensed to exhort in 
1861, and joined the Black River Conference 
the following year. By changes of boundaries 
and names he was a member of Central New 
York Conference from 1868 to 1872. Since 
then his labors have been expended in North- 
ern New York. Altogether he has spent 
twenty-four years in the pastorate, serving 
churches at Salisbury, Forest Port, Hannibal, 
Utica, Herkimer, Oswego, Lowville, and Ful" 
ton, and is just beginning the third year as 
Presiding Elder of Utica District. The 
service spread over these wide areas has been 
efficient in its character and gladdening in its 
consummations. 



REV. ELISHA W. CULVER. 

Rev. Elisha W. Culver, of the Vermont 
delegation, was born in Northfield, Vt., 
August 8, 1836, in a family line of stanch 
Methodists, the Culver family being well 
known in the early history of Vermont Meth- 
odism. He was converted at the ao;e of nine- 
teen, and served in the loth Vermont Regi- 
ment in the war for the Union. At the close of 
the war he engaged in business for a time, but 
entered the work of the Christian ministry 
in 1869, for which he had prepared himself 
by a course of study at the Newbury Semi- 
nary. He has served some of the leading ap- 
pointments in the Conference, and when 
elected to General Conference had been for 
two years Presiding Elder of St. Albans Dis- 
trict. 



IRA I. TABER, ESQ. 

Ira I. Taber, one of the lay delegates from 
Kansas Conference, Avas born in Delaware 
County, N. Y., August 22, 1836. He re- 
ceived the principal part of his education in 
the ward schools of Cleveland, O., and the 
academic department of Knox College, Gales- 



burg, 111. He moved to Holton, Jackson 
County, Kan., in May, 1858, his present home, 
and was married June 12, 1860, to Miss Eliz- 
abeth Parks, who is still living. In response 
to the second call of President Lincoln for 
three hundred thousand men during the late 
war he enlisted as a private in Company B, 
11th Kansas Volunteers. During his term of 
service he received the following promotions : 
1st Sergeant, 2d Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, 
and 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant of Regi- 
ment. He has served his country as superin- 
tendent of public institutions, county clerk, 
and clerk of the District Court. His member- 
ship in the Church dates from the year 1869, 
when he united at Holton, Kan. Since that 
time he has served the Church as steward, 
trustee, chorister, and continuously since 
1859 as superintendent of the Sunday-school, 
excepting the time he was in the United 
States army. He represented his Conference 
as lay delegate in the General Conference of 
1880 and 1888. Since 1876 he has maintained 
his connection with the Holton City Bank as 
one of the proprietors and cashier. 



CHARLES R. COMBS, ESQ. 

Charles R. Combs, lay delegate from Mis- 
souri Conference, was born in Albany, in the 
State of New York, November 25, 1829. His 
parents, who were Methodists, died and left 
him an orphan at an early age. In 1848 he 
moved West. He was converted under the 
preaching of Rev. John Taylor, of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Chin ch, South, in Alexandria, 
Mo., and after his removal to Memphis, Mo., 
in 1865, he joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He has since served in the different 
offices of the Church with a zeal which has 
won him the confidence and esteem of a large 
circle. He was sent as a lay delegate to the 
late session of the Annual Conference at Han- 
nibal, Mo., and by it was elected to the present 
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Rev. JOHN T. CRIPPEN. 

Rev. John T. Crippen, of the Upper Iowa 
Conference, was born in Worcester, Otsego 
Comity, N. Y., July 7, 1829. He was con- 
verted and joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in Decatur, in the same county. 
In June, 1853, he was licensed as a local 
preacher, and in July, 1854, was received on 
trial in Oneida Conference. While pastor at 
Bleecker Street, Utica, N. Y., he was elected 
Chaplain of the 117th Regiment, New York 
Volunteers, and served in that capacity 
nearly tvo years, being compelled to resign on 
account of failing health, and w r as mustered 
out of service on a surgeon's certificate of dis- 
ability. In October, 1873, he was transferred 
by Bishop Ames to Upper Iowa Conference. 

Brother Crippen's career in the ministry 
has been one of marked success. A faithful 
pastor, an interesting and persuasive preacher, 
he has won multitudes to Christ. He has 
been twice married, first to Miss Caroline M., 
and second to Miss Ethloin, both daughters 
of Hon. N. Thompson, of Decatur, N. Y. 



JOHN D. SLAYBACK, ESQ. 

John D. Slayback, lay delegate from New 
York Conference, was born in the city of New 
York, of Methodist parents, Dec-ember 14, 
1838. He was converted at the age of thir- 
teen in the Greene Street Methodist Episco- 
pal Church during the pastorate of Rev. R. S. 
(now Bishop) Foster, and received by him 
into the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
early became connected with the Greene 
Street Sunday-school, and has since been act- 
ive in this department of Church work. In 
1861 he removed his membership from Greene 
Street to Washington Square Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. He has been a class-leader 
since 1863, and superintendent of the Sunday- 
school since 1869. During these twenty 
years the Washington Square Sunday-school 



has raised $46,000 for the cause of missions, 
and has for years stood at the head of Sunday- 
school missionary societies in the amount of 
money it has raised. He is at the present 
time a member of the Board of Missions and 
Board of Education; a trustee of the Syracuse 
University, and of the Methodist General 
Hospital ; a vice-president of the New York 
City Church Extension and Missionary So- 
ciety ; a member of the United States Evan- 
gelical Alliance, and manager of the National 
Temperance Society, in all of which he takes 
an active part. He began his business life 
as an errand-boy, as has been the case with so 
large a number of successful and liberal Meth- 
odists, and for more than twenty years has 
been actively engaged in business for himself. 
He is known to be among the liberal givers 
to the educational institutions of our Church 
both in the North and South, as w r ell as to all 
our connectional and local causes. He is a 
thorough Methodist, a lover of the economy 
and usages of Methodism. He has been 
present at and taken part in the revival serv- 
ices of his church every year since he became 
a member, except one, when prevented by the 
state of his health. His devotion has been 
exemplified both by his constant service and 
generous offerings. He was a member of the 
General Conferences of 1884 and 1888, being 
elected to the latter by acclamation. 



ROBERT LAIDLAW, ESQ. 

Robert Laidlaw, Esq., was elected as the 
lay delegate of the Bengal Conference. His 
faithful interest in all lines of work in this 
field of our Church's activity has elicited 
the hearty admiration and esteem of multi- 
tudes. His diligence in business has won him 
success as a merchant in Calcutta, and he has 
Ions; been known as an active worker and 
generous supporter in every movement for 
the spread of the religion of Christ among 
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Rev. CHRISTIAN A. LOEBER. 

Rev. Christian A. Loeber is chairman of 
the Chicago German delegation, and pastor 
of a highly prosperous charge at Chicago, 111. 
His career in the ministry has been devoted 
to the effort to solve one of the great prob- 
lems confronting us to-day. Through his 
zealous labors many from the Fatherland have 
been won for God, and enrolled in the mem- 
bership of our Church. In imparting aggress- 
iveness and adaptability to this phase of our 
work he has had a considerable share. With 
its growing success his name must be insep- 
arably linked. 



ARTHUR I. BOREMAN, ESQ. 

Arthur I. Boreman, Esq., lay delegate from 
the West Virginia Conference, has served with 
distinction in the leading offices open to lay- 
men in our Church. Iu his own community 
at Parkersburg, where his services are best 
known, no one is more respected or esteemed. 
His influence has made itself felt far beyond 
local limits. His eloquent advocacy and 
his own example of a blameless life have 
been large aids in the spread of the right- 
eousness which exalts the nation. In the 
legal profession he commands an extensive 
practice. 



SENECA N. TAYLOR, ESQ. 

Seneca N. Taylor, Esq., a lawyer, and lay 
delegate from St. Louis Annual Conference, 
was born at Oakland, Oakland County, Mich., 
January 1, 1836. He worked on his father's 
farm until he was twenty years old, and then 
was educated at the Agricultural College and 
Adrian College, being graduated from the lat- 
ter as B.S. He studied law at the University 
of Michigan, and was admitted to the bar, and 
began the practice of his profession at Niles, 
in his native State, in 1861. In 1866 he re- 



moved to St. Louis, Mo., and since then has 
followed his profession constantly, and with 
marked industry and success. He is a man 
of marked ability, strict integrity, and enjoys 
the confidence of the entire community in 
which he lives. Mr. Taylor joined our Church 
at the age of sixteen, and has always been 
loyal to all its interests. For twenty years 
he has held the position of trustee of Union 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and nearly all 
that time has either been a Bible-class 
teacher or superintendent of its Sunday- 
school. By appointment of the Annual Con- 
ference, for fifteen years he has been the 
attorney of our Church property in Missouri. 
He holds the position of trustee in several of 
our Chinch institutions, and is president of 
the company holding the Charter Fund for 
the Conference claimants of the St. Louis 
Annual Conference. 



GEORGE W. CORNER, ESQ. 

George W. Corner, Esq., lay delegate from 
the Baltimore Conference, is one of the lay- 
men of Methodism whom his brethren delight 
to honor. His record of loyal devotion to 
the Church of his choice commands for him 
a potent influence in its counsels, and justly 
entitles him to a place in the love and esteem 
of a wide circle. As a merchant in Balti- 
more he enjoys the respect and confidence 
inspired by his integrity and sound business 
methods. 



REV. DANIEL JONES. 

Rev. Daniel Jones, who leads the delega- 
tion from Lexington Conference, has attained 
to his present position through brave strug- 
gles with difficulty. The worthy qualities 
developed while preparing for the ministry 
have been evinced in his subsequent service. 
His record as pastor, preacher, and Presiding 
Elder, glows with unswerving devotion and 
unsparing self-sacrifice. 



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Rev. URIAH S. BEEBE. 

Rev. Uriah S. Beebe, of the Central New- 
York delegation, was favored with a training 
and education of life-long importance. The 
fruits borne in his thorough conversion, his 
maturity of character, aud his incessant min- 
isterial toils have been amongst the results 
hinging upon unseen but potent influences. 
Inside the Conference of w hich he is a mem- 
ber his work has a marked individuality about 
it, while far beyond its limits his name is a 
synonym for things "of good report." He is 
Presiding Elder at Cazenovia, N. Y., and ex- 
erts a strong but well-directed force on any 
field aud in any assembly. 



WILEY M. CHRISTIAN, ESQ. 

AYiley M. Christian was born April 5, 1837, 
in Roane County, Tenn., where he received a 
common school education. His parents were 
religious, but poor, hence he w orked on the 
farm until eighteen years of age, when he ap- 
prenticed himself to a mechanic and learned 
a trade, at which he worked until the break- 
ing out of the war. He then left his home 
aud enlisted as a private in the Federal Army, 
and gradually rose to the rank of 1st Lieuten- 
ant. On returning home in September, 1S65, 
he engaged in mercantile pursuits, which he 
continues to follow. 

He was converted in August, 1860, joined 
the Methodist Episcopal Church on its re- 
organization in the South, and has been 
steward and Sunday-school superintendent 
the greater part of the last twenty-three years. 
He was licensed to preach in August, 1880, 
and ordained deacon by Bishop Hurst in 
October, 1885. He was a member of the Lay 
Electoral Conferences of 1879, 1883, and 1887, 
and was the first reserve lay delegate to the 
General Conference of 1884. He serves as 
first lay delegate from the Holston Conference 
in the present General Conference. 



Rev. TIMOTHY P. FROST. 

Rev. Timothy P. Frost, first ministerial 
delegate from Vermont Conference, was born 
in Mount Holly, Yt., June 26, 1850. He was 
converted at the Vermont Methodist Semi- 
nary in Montpelier in 1869, and licensed to 
preach the following year. He was educated 
at the above-named institution and Wesleyan 
University, Middletown, Conn., and joined the 
Vermont Conference in 1876. He has served 
pastorates of three years each at Thetford 
Center, Woodstock, Bradford, and Montpelier, 
and is now stationed at St. Johnsbury. He 
is at present Chaplain of the Vermont Senate. 
Progress and prosperity have marked his 
pathway. The range of his scholarship, 
thoroughness of his devotion, and ability of 
his utterances mark him out for valuable 
service. 



CHARLES S. WALDEN, M.D. 

Charles S. Walden, M.D., the lay delegate 
from Central Missouri Conference, has been 
very closely identified with the spreading tri- 
umphs of Methodism within the sphere of his 
present activities at Sedalia, Mo. The steady 
application which he displayed in preparing 
for his chosen profession, and since then in 
his wide practice as a physician, has been no 
less characteristic of his Christian life and 
labors. The harvest gained for our Church 
by his personal influence reveals the vast 
possibilities open to gifted and consecrated 
laymen. 



Rev. WILLIAM H. H. BROWN. 

The career of Rev. William H. H. Brown, 
ministerial delegate from Central Missouri 
Conference, is known to most readers of this 
volume. In the pastorate he has filled the 
leading appointments in his Conference, im- 
proving church property, increasing member- 
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of experience and effort. Once and again 
practical testimony has been borne to the high 
esteem in which he is held by his brethren. 
In the position which he now holds as Pre- 
siding Elder, at St. Louis, his executive abil- 
ities have found an appropriate sphere, and 
the large interests represented a wise and 
faithful servant. 



CHANCELLOR HARTSON, ESQ. 

Chancellor Hartsou, Esq., first lay delegate 
from the California Conference, ranks in the 
present assembly amongst the goodly company 
of those who, by laudable exertions, have 
attained to positions of distinction in the com- 
munity. As a lawyer his professional repute 
is known throughout the State. His exertions 
for the promotion of the public good have 
been able and unstinted, while his intelligent 
devotion to the best interests of our Church 
has been attested by marked tokens of ap- 
proval and esteem. Amid the pressing cares 
of responsible office, it may be truly said he 
steadfastly keeps the prosperity of Zion in 
pre-eminent esteem. 



PROF. BENJAMIN 0. BIRD. 

Benjamin O. Bird, the youngest son of 
James A. and Annie E. Bird, was born in 
Loudoun County, Va., August 11, 1853. Be- 
fore he was one year old his father died, and 
his mother, though delicate, succeeded through 
industry and perseverance in supporting and 
keeping the family together for several years, 
when she married again and moved to Gettys- 
burg, Pa. Very soon the family moved to the 
country, and in 1865 Mr. Bird enjoyed for 
the first time the privilege of attending school. 
By remarkable perseverance, and by many 
sacrifices, he succeeded in acquiring an educa- 
tion, and in 1875 engaged in teaching in Vir- 
ginia, where he remained for two and a half 



years, when he entered the Centenary Biblical 
Institute, Baltimore, Md. He was converted 
in 1877, and joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. After his graduation he was elected 
a member of the faculty, and exhibited rare 
tact and skill as an instructor. In 1880 he 
married Portia E. Lovett, of his native State, 
and to them have been born four beautiful 
and intelligent children. He was elected 
Principal of the Delaware Conference Acad- 
emy, Princess Anne, Md., in 1886, where 
remarkable success has attended his effort to 
build up an educational center on the Eastern 
Shore. He was chosen almost unanimously 
to represent the laity of the Delaware Con- 
ference at the General Conference. 



S. WILSON MURRAY, Esq. 

S. Wilson Murray, Esq., lay delegate from 
Central Pennsylvania Conference, is possessed 
of an ample fund of managing ability and 
tact. These find congenial employ in the 
conducting of a first-class car manufactory 
owned by him at Milton, Pa. He has for 
many years been an earnest worker in the 
Church, and here the force of his enterprise 
has given fresh impulse to every forward 
movement with which he has been linked. 
For integrity of character he is confided in 
by the community at large. 



REV. WILLIAM S. URMY. 

Rev. William S. Urmy, of the California 
delegation, serves the pastorate of a leading 
church in San Francisco, Cal. His labors 
within the bounds of his present Conference 
have been of the most vigorous and effective 
type. In addition to his goodly record as 
pastor he has from time to time filled official 
positions with unvarying acceptance, and is 
regarded as one of the valued leaders in our 
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Rev. JOHN W. BUTLER. 

Rev. John W. Butler, ministerial delegate 
from Mexico Conference, bears a name known 
and honored in many lands. He is son to 
Rev. Dr. William Butler, of missionary fame, 
and was born in Shelburne Falls, Mass., in 
1851. He acquired a sound and liberal edu- 
cation at the grammar and high schools of 
Chelsea, from which he was graduated in 
1866. The advantages thus secured were 
supplemented by • extended and thorough 
courses in Passaic Collegiate Institute and 
Boston School of Theology. He was con- 
verted in 1865, and at once engaged in Chris- 
tian work. On entering the ministry his first 
charge was at Boston Highlands. After a 
brief period of service he was appointed to 
the Mexican Mission by Bishop Simpson in 
1874. He soon rose to the position of 
missionary-in-charge over this extensive and 
promising field. In addition to his earnest 
evangelistic efforts, he wields a host of sup- 
plemental activities. He holds the offices of 
treasurer and general manager of the work, 
acts as publishing agent, and devotes untiring 
attention to important educational enterprises. 
He has had the satisfaction of seeing the va- 
ried interests of the mission developed and 
extended under his efficient and devoted 
labors. 



REV. EDWARD EDSON. 

Rev. Edward Edson, delegate from the 
New England Southern Conference, is known 
for his ripe scholarship and ample achieve- 
ments in the pastorate and Presiding Elder- 
ship. Since entering the ministry he has been 
moving steadily out into wider fields of serv- 
ice, actuated by one great aim, to which all of 
his endowments have been made contributory. 
The outward and visible signs which have at- 
tended his ministrations have been numerous 
and gladdening. He is widely and deservedly 
popular. 



Rev. JAMES C. W. COXE, D.D. 

Rev. James C. W. Coxe is a native of Fort 
Ann, N. Y., where h was born July 9, 1837. 
He was graduated from Wesleyan University 
in 1863, and in the same year, having already 
served as principal of the high school at East 
Bridgewater, Mass., was appointed teacher of 
Greek and Mathematics in Newbury Semi- 
nary, Vt. He joined the Vermont Conference 
in 1864, and did pastoral work till 1872, 
when he was elected Principal of the Vermont 
Methodist Seminary and Female College at 
Montpelier. He was chairman of the Sunday- 
school workers of Vermont in 1871. In 1875 
he became a member of the Iowa Conference, 
and filled leading pulpits until 1885, when he 
was appointed Agent of the Sunday-School 
Union for the North-west, to which work he 
has brought to bear the energy and wisdom 
which have characterized him in his varied 
spheres of effort. In addition to his genius 
as an organizer he is a popular and eloquent 
preacher. 



Rev. THOMAS CLITHERO. 

Rev. Thomas Clithero, delegate from the 
Wisconsin Conference, was born in Preston, 
England, December 4, 1844. Here he passed 
his boyhood, and received careful preparatory 
education and training until his emigration 
to this country in 1857. He was graduated, 
after a full course, at Lawrence University, 
Wisconsin, and studied in Boston Theological 
School for a period of two years. Thus 
thoroughly equipped, he for three years bent 
his energies to the work of teaching, gaining 
promotion and achieving much success. He 
entered the Wisconsin Conference in 1875, 
and having efficiently served several of its 
charges he was appointed Agent of Lawrence 
University. Manifold benefits accrued to the 
institution during his continuance in that 
office. He is at present pastor of Fort How- 
ard Methodist Episcopal Church. 



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Rev. WILLIAM A. SHANNON. 

The ministry of Rev. William A. Shannon, 
delegate from the Montana Conference, has 
been attended with great success, and has 
been productive of lasting and far-reaching 
results. In all of his appointments he has 
devoted endowments and enterprise which 
have proved of signal value in promoting the 
prosperity of ever} 7 part of the work under his 
care. His selection by his brethren as their 
representative was one of many testimonies 
to their unqualified confidence in his ability 
and judgment. He is now pastor of the 
church at Billings. 



ERASTUS A. CRAWFORD, ESQ. 

Erastus A. Crawford, Esq., first lay dele- 
gate from New Hampshire Conference, has 
from his early days been identified with our 
Church. Since his conversion he has been a 
willing and efficient worker, cheerfully serving 
in the various offices intrusted to his care. 
In business circles he is widely known and 
respected, and by his energy and urbanity 
has largely succeeded in insurance enterprise. 
He is a liberal supporter and vigorous office- 
bearer in our church at Dover, N. H. 



CHRISTOPHER C. RILEY, ESQ. 

Christopher C. Riley, Esq., lay delegate 
from the Little Rock Conference, belongs to 
the rank and file of devoted laymen who 
have so nobly toiled and sacrificed to make 
Methodism what it is. His personal career is 
the old story of honest and industrious effort 
rewarded with advancement from field to 
field. The deep interest he has taken in pro- 
moting the vital departments of our work at 
Little Rock and the thorough service he has 
rendered there as an educator sufficiently ac- 
count for his wide popularity. 
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WILLIAM A. HEARD, ESQ. 

William A. Heard, Esq., of the New Hamp- 
shire lay delegation, has served his generation 
well. The roll of his achievements is at once 
bright and lengthened. Out of the rich stores 
of a well-trained intellect he has oft drawn 
forth things new and old to aid the mission 
of Methodism. The painstaking fidelity with 
which he has served in its offices has been 
deserving of generous praise. He is promi- 
nently connected with banking enterprises. 



ANDREW P. COLLINS, ESQ. 

Andrew P. Collins was born in the year 
1885, in Seneca County, O. He was brought 
up on a farm, and received a common-school 
education. He served as teacher in the com- 
mon schools from eighteen to twenty-one years 
of age, and was converted when in his twen- 
tieth year. He entered the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, and after four years 1 study was 
graduated from the classical course, duly re- 
ceiving the degree of A.M. He entered the 
army in 1862, and served three years, being 
captured at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, 
and held a prisoner for some time. After be- 
ing exchanged, he served in the ordnance 
department, on the staff of Major-General 
C. C. Andrews. At the close of the war he 
engaged in mercantile pursuits for two years, 
and then removed to Kansas and engaged in 
farming. He was t wice chosen superintendent 
of public schools for Salina County, Kan., and 
twice elected a member of the Kansas Legis- 
lature. In 1885 he was chosen a member of 
the board of trustees of the Kansas Wesleyan 
University, at Salina, Kan., then its secretary, 
and in 1887 president of the board. This 
has been the chosen field of his life's work. 
In 1888 he was elected lay delegate to the 
General Conference from North-west Kansas 
Conference, receiving forty-nine out of fifty- 
four votes on the first ballot. 



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REV. JOSEPH E. ROBINS. 

Rev. Joseph E. Robins, of the New 
Hampshire Conference, has been more than 
once detailed by his brethren for conspicuous 
service. Valuable qualities of head and 
heart unite in him. The results of his toil 
have been such as all lovers of Zion delight 
to recognize and honor. While a pastor he 
endeared himself to the chinches he served 
by the steady use of his best resources in his 
loved employ. Invariable progress was 
secured under his ministration. Since his 
entrance upon the wider fields of the Presiding 
Eldership he has evinced zeal, aptitude, and 
distinguished ability. 



JEREMIAH B. DONNELL, ESQ. 

Jeremiah B. Donnell, Esq., of the Maine 
delegation, is a prominent figure in business 
and Methodist circles in the city of Portland, 
Me., as well as throughout his Conference 
generally. He has earned the distinction of 
having built up a prosperous business by 
great energy of character and by adhering to 
the purest and soundest principles. At the 
same time he lias not been so engrossed with 
things seen as to overlook the supreme 
values. Methodism in his locality has reaped 
lasting advantages from his liberality and his 
labors. 



HENRY H. McADAMS, ESQ. 

Henry H. McAdams, lay delegate from 
South-west Kansas Conference, was born near 
Greenville, Bond County, 111., in the year 1845. 
At the age of nineteen years he was converted 
and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church 
throucdi the influence of Rev. G. W. Wag- 
goner, of the Southern Illinois Conference. 
In 1872 he moved from Illinois to Harvey 
County, Kan. His present home is in New- 
ton County. He has been devotedly loyal | 



to the Church of his choice. He, with a hand- 
ful of Methodists, gave Methodism such a 
start in that frontier country that to-day its 
influence is mighty in the community. For 
eight years he has been honored with some 
of the best offices in the gift, of the people 
of his county. In 1880 he was elected alter- 
nate to the General Conference. In every 
position of responsibility and trust he has 
acquitted himself with fidelity and distinction. 



Rev. GERSHOM LEASE. 

Rev. Gershom Lease was born near Belle- 
fontaine, O., September 30, 1828, and united 
with the Church in 1845. He received only 
a common school education, with the excep- 
tion of a few months' study at the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, and joined the North Ohio 
Conference in 1852. When that body was 
divided, in 1856, he fell into the western 
division, now the Central Ohio Conference. 
This Conference at that time embraced a 
great deal of territory that was uninviting. 
He commenced his itinerant labors in the ex- 
treme western section of the Conference, where 
the soil was almost virgin and the people in 
very indigent circumstances. His life has been 
given to the interests of Methodism within the 
bounds of this Conference, and he has done 
some of its hardest work and filled a number 
of its better stations. He was appointed to 
Kenton District in 1879, and served as Pre- 
siding Elder for four years. He is now 
pastor of the church at Ada, where his manly 
character commends him to the esteem and 
confidence of all. 



Rev. CHARLES W. GALLAGHER. 

Rev. Charles W. Gallagher, who leads the 
New England Southern delegation, is of high 
standing in the itinerant ranks. Under his 
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taken on new elements of prosperity, and our 
cause in its broadest and best aspects been 
largely developed and advanced. A wise 
and far-seeing administrator, an eloquent 
preacher, and a clear, strong thinker on the 
live questions of the day, it is no matter of 
surprise that his popularity is pronounced 
and wide-spread. He is at present Presiding 
Elder over a large district. 



Rev. GEORGE W. NORRIS. 

Rev. George W. Norris, who is of the New 
Hampshire delegation, ranks as one of the 
strong men in a Conference widely noted for 
the ability of its members. Prominent among 
the qualities which have characterized his 
ministry are his strong pulpit utterances, 
warm sympathy with humanity, and a large 
measure of inspiring leadership in aggressive 
work. These have made their mark not only 
in successful pastorates, but more recently in 
the office and work of Presiding Elder, in 
which capacity he now serves. 



Rev. ROBERT H. HARBERT. 

Rev. Robert H. Harbert, delegate from the 
Texas Conference, was born at Columbus, 
Tex., February 18, 1858. He took compre- 
hensive courses in Fisk and Wiley Universities, 
performing at the same time the hardest man- 
ual labor to aid in supporting his mother and 
sisters. En tacrine: in the work of teaching, 
he rose to fill the principalship of the chief 
city schools in Texas, and achieved remark- 
able success. He joined the West Texas Con- 
ference in 1 880, and both then and since his 
transfer to the Texas Conference his pastor- 
ate has been fruitful in good results. Through 
his instrumentality the membership has been 
largely augmented and the churches lifted 
into a new atmosphere. The distinction he 
attained as an educator led to his receiving 



the offer of an honorable position at Washing- 
ton, and when summer normal schools were 
instituted by the State he was appointed 
principal of one. His value in this line has 
been attested by his continuance in the posi- 
tion amid frequent itinerant changes. He 
was appointed Professor in Wiley Institute 
in 1885, and Presiding Elder of the Houston 
District in 1886. The spread of revivals, in- 
creased efficiency of Sunday-schools, and large 
amount of benevolent collections testify to 
his successful leadership, while foundations 
are being laid full of promise for the future. 



WILLIAM H. PHILLIPS, ESQ. 

William H. Phillips, Esq., first lay delegate 
from New England Southern Conference, has 
so happily combined industry in business with 
devotion to Christian work that his career 
furnishes a striking example of what may be 
done in this direction. The demands occa- 
sioned by the management of a large coal 
and lumber business, though constant and 
considerable, are not permitted to hamper his 
active efforts in several branches of Church 
work. In good causes defended and in main- 
taining a blameless reputation, he has made 
an admirable record. 



REV. SAMUEL E. PENDLETON. 

Rev. Samuel E. Pendleton, chairman of the 
Kansas delegation, is one of our best-known 
ministers in the West. Methodism has few 
more unwearying toilers in any part of her 
wide field. In the leading charges which lie 
served in the pastorate striking trophies were 
won. and all departments made to feel the 
impress of his strong and devoted personality. 
As Presiding Elder his labors and successes 
have been on a large scale. Educational, 
prohibition, and revival interests have been 
advanced by his advocacy and aid. 



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REV. DWIGHT A. JORDAN. 

Rev. D wight A. Jordan, of the New En- 
gland Southern delegation, has borne a 
prominent and faithful part in the hallowed 
responsibilities of busy itinerant life. Strength, 
fidelity, and sympathy have marked his pas- 
toral relations, and contributed largely to the 
emphatic success which has attended his steps. 
In the Presiding Eldership he has displayed 
a wealth of tact, system, and enterprise which 
have under God brought about large and 
enduring consummations. 



JASON L. JONES, ESQ. 

Jason L. Jones, lay delegate from Louisiana 
Conference, was born in Madison County, 
Miss., January 14, 1854. His parents died 
before he had attained the age of ten years, 
and he was thus left, with a younger brother, 
in the care of an old lady whose name was 
Lucy. He was deprived of her motherly care 
when about ten years of age, and was thereby 
thrown out in the world to make his own 
way. He was taken to Grand Chenier Island, 
La., by Judge Kearny, in 1861, and there he 
remained until 1871; but being exceedingly 
anxious to obtain an education he returned to 
Canton, Miss., and entered and attended the 
public schools of Canton during the years 
ls7i>-7:!. In November, 187.3, he entered 
Alcorn University, Mississippi, where he 
prosecuted his studies until 1879, when he 
left the school, having completed his sopho- 
more studies. During the first three years he 
paid a part of his expenses at school by work. 
In June, 1876, he was appointed to teach a 
public school in Scott County, Miss., and for 
several summers thereafter taught in various 
counties, and attended school during the fall 
and winter months. In 1881 he entered the 
junior class of Straight University, at New 
Orleans, and was graduated from the classical 
course in 1883. He was appointed Prin- 



cipal of the Plaquemine City School in 1885, 
and was graduated in 1886 from the Law De- 
partment of Straight Universit y as an attorney 
and counselor-at-lavv. Since that time he has 
practiced his profession in the town of 
Plaquemine, and was elected City Attorney 
of Plaquemine in May, 1887. He was convert- 
ed to Christ in August, 1876, and joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in 1878, and has 
been an active worker in the Church and 
Sunday-school ever since. 



Rev. JESSE M. DURRELL. 

Rev. Jesse M. Durrell, chairman of the del- 
egation from New Hampshire Conference, 
has journeyed from strength to strength in 
his itinerant course, and, though rich in ac- 
complished toils, is yet but in the maturity of 
his capacity for service. Delighting to spend 
and be spent, extending a helping hand to 
every cause needing assistance, and rising to 
the demands of great occasions when neces- 
sary, he has won many friends, and can re- 
joice in that which has been fitly pronounced 
" better than great riches." 



Rev. CHARLES G. HUDSON, D.D. 

Charles G. Hudson was born in Franklin* 
ville, N. Y., April 30, 1843, and is son of 
Rev. T. B. Hudson, late of East Genesee Con- 
ference. He was converted in 1853, and was 
graduated from the Genesee College in the 
class of 1863, taking as honor a Greek saluta- 
tory, assigned as equal in honor to the vale- 
dictory. He was teacher of ancient languages, 
and also of German, in the Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminary from 1863 to 1872, and Professor of 
Ancient Languages in Simpson Centenary 
College, Indianola, la., in 1873-74. He spent 
the year 1867-68 in the Umiversity of Berlin, 
studying Sanskrit and philology. 

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in 1863, transferred to the Des Moines Con- 
ference in 1873, and to the North Indiana 
Conference in 1874, where he has since been 
in the pastorate. He has been stationed in 
Indiana at Pendleton, Logausport, Bristol, 
Angola, Fort Wayne, Kokomo, and Anderson. 
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity 
from De Pauw University in 1886. He is 
editor of the Homiletic Department of the 
Pal pit and Pew. 

Since 1879 he has acted as secretary of the 
North Indiana Conference. He was one of 
the official short-hand reporters of the General 
Conference of 1880, at Cincinnati; of the 
General Conference of 188-1, at Philadelphia, 
and of this present session ; and in addition 
has had charge of the short-hand work at 
Chautauqua for six summers. He leads the 
delegation of the North Indiana Conference, 
and is widely known for his varied activities, 
ample culture, and rich success. 

He married Miss Clara E. Davis, of Hon- 
eoye Falls, N.Y.. August 23, 1870, who died 
in 1871. He married Miss Hannah S. Backus 
December 25, 1872. 



REV. WILLIAM T. JEWELL. 

Rev. William T.Jewell, delegate from East 
Maine Conference, was born in Litchfield, Me., 
August 28, 1823. He is a descendant of the 
Thomas Jewell who settled at Braintree in 
1642, twenty-two years after the landing at 
Plymouth. He was converted in 1844 under 
the labors of the Rev. William McDonald. 
After receiving license to pi'each he served as 
assistant on missions which embraced eight 
towns, journeying entirely on foot and re- 
ceiving from fifty to sixty dollars per annum. 
In 1849 he joined the East Maine Conference. 
On his first appointment his health broke 
down and he became quite blind, but still 
continued to preach. During the intervening 
thirty-eight years he has labored assiduously 
on circuits and stations, and had the joyous 



satisfaction of seeing Methodism widely ex- 
tended under his faithful care. His extensive 
toils included a term in the Christian Com- 
mission work among the soldiers in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. He is a trustee of the 
East Maine Conference Seminary. 



CHAUNCEY TEMPLE, ESQ. 

Chauncey Temple, lay delegate from Ver- 
mont Conference, was born in Franklin, Vt., 
October 8, 1834, of Methodist parentage. 
Naturally of a vivacious temperament, lie 
was restrained in youth by the rule of his 
father's house that the children must all be 
in at nine o'clock. As a boy he deemed this 
a rigorous restraint, but as a man he grate- 
fully esteems it as one of the greatest safe- 
guards of his youth. Converted at the age 
of nineteen, his early manhood was conse- 
crated to God. He has borne the various 
responsibilities of the Church of his choice, 
and cheerfully toiled and contributed to pro- 
mote her best interests. 

He was elected to the State Legislature in 
1882 by a nearly unanimous vote of his tow n. 
In his own community he is beloved as the 
poor man's friend and counselor. 



NATHAN E. LYMAN, ESQ. 

Nathan E. Lyman, first lay delegate from 
Rock River Conference, was born in Rush- 
ford, Allegany County, N Y., in 1834, and 
removed to Illinois in 1855. He has been 
engaged in the banking business since 1862, 
and was made President of the People's Bank 
of Rockford, 111., in 1873, which position he 
now holds. He is also engaged in several 
manufacturing enterprises to which he sus- 
tains official relations. He has been an active 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
since 1857, and has done much to further its 
I mission, both locally and in general. 



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Hon. JAMES M. DAVIS. 

Hon. James M. Davis, lay delegate from 
Missouri Conference, occupies an honorable 
and influential position as Judge of Court at 
Chillicothe, Mo. From time to time such civil 
honors have been bestowed upon him as viv- 
idly set forth his ample abilities. The cause 
of righteousness has been advanced and the 
public weal promoted by the faithful discharge 
of his executive functions. His support of 
our Church and its varied enterprises has 
been of the most liberal and effective type. 



THOMAS R. FLETCHER, ESQ. 

Thomas R. Fletcher, Esq., first lay delegate 
from Lexington Conference, has had a career 
of great and growing usefulness as an edu- 
cator. In his own community at Flemings- 
burg, Ky., he is highly respected and esteemed 
both for his own and his work's sake. In 
the Church he has filled several of the offices 
open to laymen with notable zeal and 
efficiency. Combining great natural ability 
with considerable acquirements, he is a vessel 
unto honor, ready for every good work. 



REV. WILLIAM H. COFFEY. 

Rev. William H. Coffey, who leads the 
delegation from Delaware Conference, was 
born in Newville, Pa., May 15, 1853. He is 
grandson to the General Coffey who attained 
such distinction in the war between the 
United States and Mexico. His father was 
noted for his brilliant attainments and gener- 
ous friendships. He died when his son was 
nine years old. 

During boyhood Mr. Coffey had thrilling 
and hairbreadth escapes, and by his indomita- 
ble courage and genius for leading gave prom- 
ise of future distinction. His studies were 
commenced under Professor Catta, of Phila- 



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delphia, and pursued in a select school in 
Fourth Street of that city, where he laid the 
foundation of his attainments in scieuce, phi- 
losophy, and classics. His conversion, which 
took place in December, 1867, was very thor- 
ough. Attracting attention by his gifts and 
usefulness, he became local preacher in 1871. 
Entering the ministry, his first charge was 
Deal's Island, where many souls were con- 
verted and added to the church. Since then 
he has filled leading appointments and been 
signally successful in improving church prop- 
erty and increasing membership. He was 
appointed Presiding Elder of Salisbury Dis- 
trict in 1884, and raised it to a place among 
the first districts of the Church and to the 
position of leading colored district. He has 
brought his present district (Philadelphia) in 
one year from the rank of third to that of 
first in his Conference. His record is one of 
enlarged usefulness. 



Rev. J. LEANDER SOOY. 

The chairman of the delegation from the 
New Jersey Conference is Rev. J. Leander 
Sooy, who was born in Green Bank, Burling- 
ton County, N. J., March 1, 1849. He re- 
ceived his preparatory education at the 
Mount Holly Institute, New Jersey. In 
1871 he was graduated from Princeton Col- 
lege, New Jersey, and subsequently took a 
course in Drew Seminary. He entered upon 
the work of the ministry in 1873 in New 
Jersey Conference, and after serving five 
years within its bounds was transferred to 
Kentucky Conference in 1878. His further 
transfers have been to the Genesee Confer- 
ence in 1880 and to the New Jersey Confer- 
ence in 1883. In all of these varying fields 
his work has been marked by painstaking 
fidelity and attended with gratifying results. 
As an able, devoted, and successful pastor his 
reputation is of an ample and commendatory 
character. 



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Rev. ALBINUS A. JOHNSON. 

Rev. Albinus A. Johnson is widely known 
as the President of Texas Wesleyan Univer- 
sity. In this department of service he has 
shown wisdom and energy which have been 
of vast benefit to the institution, and have 
gained for him a reputation as an educator of 
rare ability. He is a gentleman of polished 
manners, and his success as pastor and Pre- 
siding Elder bears witness to his capacity for 
work in various spheres. He is the reserve 
delegate of Austin Conference. 



ELIJAH C. WADHAMS, ESQ. 

Elijah C. Wadhams, Esq., lay delegate from 
the Wyoming Conference, has been long and 
honorably identified with our Church work. 
In all local offices and enterprises he has taken 
his full share, and merited the high commenda- 
tion of having done what he could. Though 
wisely concentrating his efforts at Wilkes- 
barre, the place of his abode, his generous 
sympathy and help have overflowed all nar- 
row channels. His industry, integrity, and 
general force of character have done much 
to build up the large banking concern with 
which he is connected. 



Rev. JAMES M. WEIR. 

Rev. James M. Weir, of the Ohio delega- 
tion, fitly represents one of our most pros- 
perous Conferences. His scholarship, his 
power of clear and strong utterance, his 
knowledge of Methodist economy, his skill as 
an administrator, and his own personal devo- 
tion are all of the most thorough type. From 
time to time he has fulfilled important trusts 
with advantage to the Church, and is looked 
up to as one of those whose attitude on crit- 
ical questions is safe in its varied bearings. 
He is nt present Presiding Elder at Dela- 
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Rev. SANFORD VAN BENSCHOTEN, D.D. 

Rev. Sanford Van Benschoten, D.D., is of 
Methodist parentage. He was born in the 
town of Union Vale, Dutchess County, N. Y., 
in the year 1832. His early struggle to 
secure an education was brave and successful, 
resulting in his being graduated from Roches- 
ter University with the degree of A.M. He 
w r as converted at the early age of thirteen, 
licensed to exhort at sixteen, and to preach 
three years later. In 185S he married Miss 
E. B. Gulick, daughter of the Rev. J. G. 
Gulick, of East Genesee Conference, and in 
the same year entered the ranks of East Gen- 
esee Conference. Since that period his 
career in the pastorate has been one of large 
achievement and liberal success. He has 
filled first-class appointments in the Newark 
Conference, and by his ability and devotion 
won for himself an exceptional record. 

He is at present serving his second term as 
Presiding Elder, a position in which he has 
contributed much toward lifting the churches 
into enlarged usefulness and increased pros- 
perity. 



WILLIAM H. SKIRM, ESQ. 

William H. Skirm, Esq., first lay delegate 
from New Jersey Conference, is one of the 
specially prominent laymen connected with 
that body. While rising from stage to stage 
of a grow ing commercial career he has ranked 
as a loyal, earnest, and efficient worker in the 
Church. To his untiring 1 exertions Trenton 
Methodism in particular owes an incalculable 
debt, while the cause in general has profited 
by his liberal example and deeds. 



REV. MARTIN L. GATES. 

Rev. Martin L. Gates, was born near Gettys- 
burg, Pa., in 1843, of German and Scotch par- 
entage. He was educated at York, Pa., in 
Cottage Hill College. He enlisted in the 



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194th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
and remained in the army till the close of the 
war. His call to the ministry came to him 
very distinctly in early life. His father oppos- 
ing him in his chosen life-work, he entered 
the Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated 
in 1868. He followed the practice of medi- 
cine with rare success for ten years. He then 
entered the traveling connection of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in Kansas, and re- 
ceived his first appointment from Bishop 
Simpson. At present he fills the pulpit of the 
First Methodist Episcopal Church in Wichita, 
one of the largest in Kansas, with a member- 
ship of over eight hundred. 

Mr. Gates belongs to the alumni of the 
C. L. S. C. of the class of 1882, and has almost 
completed the course of the Chautauqua 
School of Theology. He filled the position of 
President of the Kansas State Sunday-school 
Association for one year, and is now Superin- 
tendent of Instruction of the Winfield Sunday- 
school Assembly. 



Hon. ALDEN SPEARE. 

Hon. Alden Speare, lay delegate from New 
England Conference, was born October 26, 
1825, in Chelsea, Vt. He is the oldest son 
of Dr. Sceva Spear (the present spelling of 
the name was commenced by Alden when at 
school at Newbury, Vt.). His grandfather 
was also a physician, and he intended to fol- 
low the same profession. He had taken the 
preparatory course at Newbury Seminary, 
and was nearly fitted to enter the Wesleyan 
University, but the death of his father in 
March, 1844, changed his plans, and in the 
following October he went to Boston, where 
he has been in business till the present time. 
He was converted in 1848, and joined the 
"Free-Will Baptist" church, the only church 
in the village where he then resided. But 
during his stay at Newbury, Vt., and under 
the influence of the late Bishop Baker, he had 



become familiar with Methodism, and so drawn 
to it that soon after coming to Boston he 
joined the Bromfield Street Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and has since been a loyal 
Methodist, filling the various relations of 
classdeader, Sunday-school superintendent, 
steward, and trustee. He is also one of the 
trustees of Boston University. 

He commenced business on his own account 
in 1851, and remained at the head of the firm 
until 1887, when he retired (except as a spe- 
cial partner) from active mercantile pursuits. 
In 1869 he en^a^ed with others in building 
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 
of which he has been a director for nineteen 
years. He is also President of the Arkansas 
Valley Town and Land Company of Kansas, 
which company has between one and two 
hundred towns, and in nearly all of these 
land has been given by the company on which 
to erect Methodist and other churches. He 
was for nine years one of the School Committee 
of the city of Boston, three years in Newton, 
and Mayor of the latter city for the years 
1876 and 1877. He has twice visited the Old 
World, as far east as Asia Minor, and Norway 
in the north. He has for many years been a 
director in one of the National Banks, and 
trustee of one of the Savings Banks of Bos- 
ton. At present he is President of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce of the city of Boston. 



D. STEWART ELLIOTT, ESQ. 

D. Stewart Elliott, Esq., of the South Kan- 
sas delegation, has his toils and reputation 
centered at Coffey ville, Kan. Of difficulties 
surmounted and good work done his life 
affords a striking example. The traits by 
which he worked his way into the legal pro- 
fession have made his subsequent career one 
of growing success. The effects of his con- 
stant and faithful work in the Church cannot 
be tabulated, but it has more than once re- 
ceived a meed of recognition. 



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Rev. AARON D. HEAXT. 

Rev. Aaron D. Heaxt, of the Troy delega- 
tion, is one of those whose praise is in the 
churches, and extends remotely beyond their 
inclosures. A tireless pastor, an able preacher, 
and a judicious counselor, his advancement 
to wider fields of usefulness has been an in- 
evitable result. As Presiding Elder he has 
strengthened the things which remain, and 
guided the strong to fresh fields of holy and 
beneficent enterprise. 



NELSON L. STONE, ESQ. 

Nelson L. Stone, Esq., first lay delegate 
from Northern New York Conference, has for 
many years been a devoted Methodist and an 
earnest worker, and his election to membership 
in the General Conference was an honor for 
which his abilities and toils alike singled him 
out. His admirable qualities of mind and 
heart entitle him to a large place in the esteem 
of the community at Potsdam, N. Y., where 
he is engaged in business as a photographer, 
and where he labors for the advancement of 
all worthy movements. 



Rev. H. JACOB BREITER. 

Rev. H. Jacob Breiter, who represents the 
Switzerland Conference, is a native of the 
canton of Zurich, Switzerland, where he was 
born in 1845. He was the subject of the 
earnest prayers of pious parents, and through 
the further influence of a young and now 
long-sainted preacher was soundly converted 
to God at the age of sixteen. He was early 
convinced of a divine call to the ministry. In 
the year 1864 an opportunity was presented 
for him to take up the necessary studies, and 
he entered a seminary of the Germany and 
Switzerland Conference at Bremen. His edu- 
cation here was under the supervision of such 

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men as Dr. L. S. Jacoby, Professor W. Warren, 
F. Paulus, and K. Riemenschneider, all of 
whom have since gone to their eternal reward. 
He completed his studies in 1866, and entered 
upon the work of Gospel preaching, serving 
in turn the following charges: Ludwigsburg, 
Heilbronn, Basel, Frankfort, Berlin, Plauen, 
Horgen, and Zurich. From 1885-88 he 
was Presiding Elder of Zurich District. He 
is held in high estimation by his Confer- 
ence brethren, and his selection as their rep- 
resentative to the General Conference was a 
fitting and well-earned tribute to a life devoted 
to holy endeavor. 



ELI F. RITTER, ESQ. 

Eli F. Ritter, Esq., first lay delegate from 
South-east Indiana Conference, has had a career 
rich in interesting incident. Its untiring self- 
effort, its toils and triumphs, its ultimate issues 
in maturity of Christian character and success 
of temporal enterprise, incite admiration and 
gratitude. The responsibilities of a large prac- 
tice in the legal profession have not abated 
his zeal as a worker in our Church. In the 
center of his activities at Indianapolis he i* 
respected by all classes, and has done much 
for the betterment of his fellow-citizens. 



Rev. JAMES L. WALLAR. 

Rev. James L. Wallar, who leads the dele- 
gation from Southern Illinois Conference, is a 
man of high standing in that Conference and 
territory. His services for Methodism have 
been varied and valuable. His chief excel- 
lences have perhaps been most apparent in 
the pastoral sphere. He has for many years 
had first-rate appointments and eveiy-where 
been noted for the large increases secured 
under his ministry. In Centralia, the scene 
of his present labors, he is warmly and widely 
beloved. 



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WILLIAM H. STOUT, ESQ. 

William II. Stout, Esq., lay delegate from 
South Kansas Conference, is the soil of Jesse 
Lee Stout, and was born in Troy, Oakland 
County, Mich., July 14, 1837. He was edu- 
cated at Pontiac, Mich., and at the University 
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, under Professor 
(later Bishop) E. O. Haven. He spent the 
early years of his business life between the 
farm on which he was reared and a banking 
house with his brothel", Byron G. Stout, Esq., 
in Pontiac, Mich. In the year 1869 he re- 
moved to Fort Scott, Kan., and has for nine- 
teen years been a member of the successful 
mercantile firm of Durkee <fc Stout. He has 
been a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church since 1848, and is an ardent advocate 
of prohibition, giving much of his time and 
money in advocating the cause. He is closely 
identified with the educational, religious, and 
business interests of the rapidly growing city 
of his adoption, having served for five years 
prior to 1886 as President of its Board of 
Trade, and was in that year elected to the 
office of Mayor. 



Rev. JOEL W. EATON, D.D. 

Rev. Joel W. Eaton, D.D., was born in 
Knosburgh, Vt., September 26, 1831. His 
early life was spent on the farm. His aca- 
demic education was obtained at the old 
Bakersfield North Academy, which was for 
many years among the most prominent and 
successful of our many academies. In 1855 
he was graduated from the Methodist Gen- 
eral Biblical Institute, now the Theological 
School of Boston University. From that 
time till the spring of 1857 he preached as a 
supply under the Presiding Elder. In 1857 
he was admitted on trial in the Troy Annual 
Conference, of which body he has since con- 
tinuously been a member. In the fall of 
1862 he entered the military service as Chap- 



lain of the 169th Regiment, New York State 
Volunteers, in which service he continued for 
about a year, when on account of broken health 
he resigned his commission, and in the spring 
of 1864 resumed regular work in his Confer- 
ence, in which, with the exception of a year 
spent with his wife in foreign travel, he has 
since been engaged. At the General Confer- 
ences of 1860, 1864, 1868, and 1872 he 
served on the staff of The Daily Christian Ad- 
vocate. In 1876 he was first elected a delegate 
to the General Conference, and in 1880 and 
1884 was a reserve, and in 1888 was again 
elected a delegate. He was one of the two 
delegates from his Conference to the Centen- 
nial Conference of Methodism held in Balti- 
more in December, 1884. In 1881 the hon- 
orary degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- 
ferred uj3on him by Wesleyan University. 
He has filled many of the most prominent 
appointments in his Conference, and from 
1877 to 1887 was its secretary. He is now 
Presiding Elder of the Albany District, 



Rev. BENJAMIN C. SWARTS. 

Rev. Benjamin C. S warts, delegate from 
the South-west Kansas Conference, is also 
Presiding Elder at Newton, Kan. The re- 
sults of his work in the ministry have been 
on a large scale and gratifying in character. 
Under his ministrations churches have been 
edified and harvests of ingathering secured, 
while general benevolences have been raised 
to a healthy maximum, and temperance and 
educational interests largely aided. 



ALFRED GUIBORD, ESQ. 

Alfred Guibord, Esq., first lay delegate from 
Troy Conference, ranks in the present assembly 
as a strong example of what consecrated lay 
effort can do to promote the high aims of our 
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be devoted to the interests of a large banking 
concern, he has always had a helping hand 
ready and willing to aid the work of our Zion. 
He has exemplified our doctrine, supported our 
benevolences, filled our responsible offices with 
zeal, fidelity, and acceptance. He is known 
throughout his Conference and territory as a 
strong man. 



WILLIAM H. CRAIG, ESQ. 

William H. Craig, Esq., a lay delegate from 
the St. Louis Conference, has rendered much 
efficient lay service within the limits of that 
body. His home is situated in Kansas City, 
and his strong influence is felt in its Methodism 
as well as in its civil affairs. He is clear- 
sighted and eloquent ; does a thriving business 
in real estate, and is princely in his support 
of our work, locally and in general. 



Rev. JAMES S. SMART, D.D. 

Rev. James S. Smart, D.D., delegate from 
the Detroit Conference, was born in Searsport, 
Me., in 1825, and was converted when sixteen 
years of age. He went to Michigan a few 
years later, and when twenty-three years of 
age joined the Michigan Conference. The 
Conference was divided in 1855. and he be- 
came a member of the Detroit Conference. 
In 18(52 he raised a company of over one 
hundred men for service in the war, and was 
elected captain, but was soon appointed chap- 
lain of the 23d Michigan Infantry. He was 
mainly instrumental in raising the funds for 
the erection of Heck Hall, belonging to the 
Garrett Biblical Institute, of which institu- 
tion he was financial agent in 1864-65. To 
his work as pastor and Presiding Elder he 
has consecrated talents and experience which 
have been productive of results of much per- 
manent value. This is the sixth General Con- 
ference to which he has had the honor of 
being elected. 



WATSON PARRISH, ESQ. 

Watson Parrish, Esq., the first lay delegate 
from Southern California Conference, has a 
large and honorable reputation on the Pacific 
coast. The value of his influence and support 
in our educational, missionary, and temperance 
schemes, and in otherwise aiding to lay foun- 
dations for the vast dimensions awaiting our 
work there in the future, is widely recog- 
nized. The results of his work for Meth- 
odism will be felt after many days. He is a 
successful lawyer in San Diego, Cal. 



REV. ALEXANDER BRAMLEY. 

Rev. Alexander Bramley, of the Northern 
New York delegation, has held a career of 
steadily increasing power and progress since 
his introduction to the itinerant ranks. The 
zeal and comprehensiveness of his activities 
in the pastoral relation rendered him useful 
and beloved along the line of his labors. He 
has served in various responsible offices with 
great satisfaction, and is confided in for his 
wisdom and worth. As a Presiding Elder 
he has evinced qualities which have rendered 
his service of the most lasting value. 



REV. DAVID W. GATES. 

Rev. David W. Gates, delegate from Troy 
Conference, has rendered excellent service in 
that body. He has had an extended career in 
the pastorate, filling several first-class appoint- 
ments so efficiently that unusual prosperity 
marked his pathway. He has spared no pains 
to promote every interest of Methodism, and 
has conspicuously succeeded. In several ways 
the Church he has served has marked its ap- 
preciation of his faithful toil. He is now in 
the Presiding Eldership, a sphere in which 
his well-known executive force finds congenial 
employ. 



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Rev. HUGH McBIRNEY. 

Rev. Hugh McBirney, of the South Kansas 
Conference delegation, was born March 27, 
1843, in County Down, Ireland. He was 
brought up in the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
but when fifteen years of age he heard the 
Gospel as preached by Methodist ministers, 
and was soundly converted in the great re- 
vival known as the " year of grace " that 
swept over the province of Ulster in 1859. 
After receiving a common school education 
he attended the National Model School in 
Belfast. He was soon appointed class-leader, 
and conducted meetings in many places. He 
entered upon the work of teaching, and when 
about twenty-three years of age he married 
Miss Susan Mark, the daughter of godly 
Methodist parents. For a number of years 
he exercised his gifts as a local preacher, but 
he felt urgently called to the full work of the 
ministry. Married men not being admitted 
to the Conference, he came to America and 
settled in Kansas in 1875. Iu the following 
spring he entered the South Kansas Confer- 
ence, where his ministry has been attended 
with rich results. He is an excellent preacher, 
and is now pastor at Chanute. 



GEORGE REYNOLDS, ESQ. 

George Reynolds, lay delegate from Wyo- 
ming Conference, is a native of ITarpersville, 
N. Y. At the age of fourteen he joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has 
since been a useful member, most of the 
time holding an official place among his 
brethren. He is loyal to Methodism, and 
practically demonstrates his approval of the 
advanced position taken by his Church on the 
question of temperance. He was a soldier in 
the Union Army, and served in the 3d New 
York Cavalry from 1862 to 1865. He was 
engaged in mercantile business in Oneonfa, 
his present home, about twenty years. As a 



soldier, a citizen, and a business man he has 
shown himself worthy the name of Christian, 
and his brethren but recognized his worth 
when they elected him to the General Con- 
ference of 1888. 



Rev. CHARLES W. LYNCH. 

Rev. Charles W. Lynch, of the North In- 
diana delegation, unites in himself many 
traits which constitute him a power in his 
Conference and in our Church. By dint of 
energy he has crowded into a comparatively 
brief period of service an amount of diversi- 
fied labor such as might well be spread 
through a life-time. His power as a preacher 
is known beyond Conference limits. He is 
at present stationed at Warsaw, Ind. 



REV. SAMUEL CALL. 

Rev. Samuel Call, delegate from Northern 
New York, deserves well of his Conference 
and Church for the extent to which he has 
promoted their best interests. He has taken 
an ample share in furthering current reforms 
and progressive movements of vital bearing 
in our history as a Church. His chief field 
of labor has been in the pastorate, in which 
he has won many trophies which wall stand 
as enduring monuments of his earnest min- 
istry. 



Rev. GEORGE B. WIGHT. 

Rev. George B. Wight, of the New Jersey 
delegation, has spent successful terms on 
some of the more prosperous charges in that 
Conference. His pulpit and platform abil- 
ities are of a high order, his educational ac- 
quirements varied and thorough, while his 
record as a faithful pastor is one of rare ex- 
cellence. He is at present in charge of 
Greene Street Church, Trenton, N. J., and is 
a man of mark in our eastern work. 



REPRESENTA TI I 



REV. DAVID H. CARROLL, D.D. 

David Henry Carroll was born in Baltimore, 
Md., July 11, 1840. He was converted in Lis 
sixteenth year, and joined the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. He was graduated with honor 
from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., from 
which in 1883 he received the degree of 
Doctor of Divinity. He entered the Baltimore 
Conference in 1861, and was successively sta- 
tioned in Westminster, Frederick City, and 
Baltimore, Md., and in Carlisle and Williams- 
port, Pa., till 1872 ; while stationed in Balti- 
more he was called to establish the Book 
Depository of the Baltimore Conference, which 
has become a great institution of Baltimore 
Methodism, and of which Dr. Carroll has had 
charge for sixteen years. At the last ses- 
sion of the Baltimore Conference he was ap- 
pointed to the presidency of the Baltimore 
Church Extension and Missionary Society, in 
which work he is deeply interested and con- 
spicuously successful. 



REV. ROBERT S. MACLAY, D.D. 

Of the missionary heroes of Methodism 
none has achieved a nobler or more enduring 
work than Dr. Maclay, founder of our mis- 
sion in Japan and delegate from the Japan 
Conference. He was graduated from Dick- 
inson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1845, and 
entered the Baltimore Conference in 1846. 
In October, 1847, he sailed for China to aid 
in founding the first mission east of the Cape 
of Good Hope planted by the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. In 1852 he was appoint- 
ed Superintendent and Treasurer of the Foo- 
chow Mission, which offices he held till 1872. 
when he was appointed Superintendent and 
Treasurer of the Japan Mission. 

During the summer of 1884 he visited 
Korea, accompanied by Mrs. Maclay, and 
obtained from the king permission to com- 
mence Christian work in that country on edu- 



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cational and medical lines. In 1883 he was 
appointed President of the El Wa Gaklo, an 
institution founded by our mission in Tokio, 
Japan, comprising the Philander Smith Bibli- 
cal Institute and an English Academic De- 
partment with college classes attached. In 
1881 he attended the Ecumenical Methodist 
Conference in London, and was one of the 
invited speakers. 

He has just been unanimously elected to 
the office of Dean of the "Maclay College of 
Theology " at San Fernando, Cal., an institu- 
tion of which one prominent object is to pre- 
pare young men for service in the foreign 
missions of our Church. It is believed that the 
change from Japan to California will intro- 
duce him to another successful campaign in 
the service of the Church, and constitute an 
appropriate finale to his forty-one years of un- 
interrupted labor in the foreign mission field. 
The institution of which he now takes charge 
was founded and endowed by his brother, 
Hon. Charles Maclay, of San Fernando. It 
is designed to meet one of the most pressing 
and important demands of Methodism on the 
Pacific coast. 

In connection with Rev. C. C. Baldwin, 
D.D., of the American Board Mission, Dr. 
Maclay prepared and published a dictionary 
of the Chinese language in the Foochow 
dialect, and acted on committees which 
translated the New Testament into the col- 
loquial dialect of Foochow, China, and into 
the Japanese language. 



REV. WILLIAM GRIFFIN, D.D. 

Few men have been more deservedly prom- 
inent and popular in the history and work of 
the Troy Conference than Dr. Griffin. He 
has a fine education, a clear and logical brain, 
broad sympathies, positive convictions, and a 
determined earnestness. As a debater he 
stands pre-eminent. His grasp is quick and 
comprehensive. He is aggressive in the largest 



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sense of the word. He was born in Middle- 
town, Delaware County, July 25, 1816. In 
1835 lie joined the Troy Conference. In the 
years of his active work he has been repeat- 
edly honored by his brethren with many re- 
sponsible trusts. Three times he was placed 
in charge of districts, and served most effect- 
ively. Four times he has been elected to the 
General Conference, 1856, 1860, 1861 ; in 1868 
he declined an election on account of private 
business interests. In 1888, though a super- 
numerary, his brethren honored him by placing 
him at the head of the delegation. He took 
a supernumerary relation in 1868, and became 
a successful financier. His gifts to the cause 
of education have been princely: to Middle- 
town University, $50,000 to found a professor- 
ship; an equal amount to Syracuse University, 
and $25,000 to Cazenovia Seminary. Mrs. 
Griffin was Preceptress of this institution be- 
fore her marriage. He never sought publicity, 
but when his duties brought him prominently 
forward he was always equal to the demand. 
In 1886 he was elected President of the Round 
Lake Association. Here his earnest purposes 
and liberal spirit have found scope for action, 
and most worthily has he filled the office. He 
has given toward new buildings for the Sum- 
mer School and the Assembly nearly $20,000. 
Still is he planning new and vigorous things 
for the Church of his choice. He lives royally 
in the happy confidence and sincere esteem of 
a large and growing circle. 



Prof. CHARLES J. LITTLE. 

Among the distinguished educators in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Charles J. 
Little stands in the foremost rank. He was 
born September 21, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa., 
and received his early education in the public 
schools. He was employed at the Dental 
Depot of Jones, White & Co. till I860. He 
prepared for college under Dr. John Roberton, 
of Philadelphia, and entered the University 



of Pennsylvania in 1857, being graduated in 
1861. His entrance into the Philadelphia 
Conference took place in the following year. 
He continued to preach until 1867, when he 
became professor in Williamsport Seminary, 
which position he occupied until 1870, when 
he went to Germany. 

From 1872 to 1874 he was pastor of Christ 
Church, Philadelphia, In the latter year he 
was elected Professor of Philosophy and 
English Literature in Dickinson College, and 
ably filled this chair until 1885. He is now 
Professor in Syracuse University. 



Rev. JOHN W. HAMILTON, D.D. 

Rev. John W. Hamilton, D.D., of the New 
England Conference delegation, is the son of 
the late Rev. W. C. P. Hamilton, of the Pitts- 
burg Conference, and was born in Western 
Virginia, March 15, 1845. He attended pub- 
lic schools in Ohio, and was graduated from 
Mount Union College in 1865, and from Bos- 
ton University in 1871. He was licensed to 
preach June 3, 1865, and joined the Pittsburg 
Conference in the following April. In the 
year of his graduation from Mount Union 
College he was appointed agent for the en- 
dowment fund of that institution. From 
1866 to 1868 he served on Newport Circuit, 
in Ohio. He was ordained deacon by Bishop 
Kingsley in 1868, and elder by Bishop Scott 
in 1870. His transfer to the New England 
Conference took place in 1868, and within its 
bounds he was pastor successively at Maple- 
wood, Mass., for two years; Somerville, Mass., 
three years, and First Church, Boston, three 
years. He then became founder of the Peo- 
ple's Church, Boston, of which he was the 
pastor for nine years, Bishop Simpson "stretch- 
ing the rule." He then returned to Somer- 
ville, where he has just concluded his second 
pastorate of three years, and is now stationed 
at Saratoga Street Church, Boston. 

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author and editor of Lives of the Bishops, 
People's Clmrch Pulpit, Memorials of Jesse 
Lee and the Old Elm, and The Hills and 
Homes of Somerville. He has also writ- 
ten a number of monographs, lectures, and 
sermons, which have been published. This 
is the second General Conference of which he 
has been a member, and his ability and wis- 
dom in the councils of the Church have won 
for him a wide reputation, and have been 
recognized by many gratifying tributes. 



REV. GEORGE W. HUGHEY, D.D. 

Rev. George W. Hughey, D.D., of the Saint 
Louis Conference delegation, is well known as 
pastor of one of the chief charges in his Con- 
ference, and as an eminent representative of 
our Church. Ready in debate, with rich re- 
sources of intellect and a well-balanced judg- 
ment, he is naturally destined to lead. As 
a pastor his course is as a line of light in its 
well-directed toil and guidance of large enter- 
prises to successful issues. 



Rev. BENNETT MITCHELL. 

Rev. Bennett Mitchell, delegate from the 
North-west Iowa Conference, is a native of 
the State of Indiana, and was born in Monroe 
County, February 18, 1832. He was con- 
verted in the fall of 1850, and in 1852 re- 
moved with his father's family to Iowa. He- 
was admitted into the Iowa Conference in 
1855, having traveled as a supply the year 
previous. . His ministerial experience em- 
braces eighteen years spent in the pastorate, 
and sixteen of grand service in the Presiding 
Eldership. 

Mr. Mitchell was educated at Indiana 
Asbury University. He was married to 
Miss Ellen P. Munger, in Lee County, la., 
September 8, 1855. In this union he secured 
that invaluable aid to ministerial usefulness, 



a good wife. He represented the Des Moines 
Conference in the General Conferences of 
1868 and 1872, and was a delegate from his 
present Conference to those of 1876. 1884, 
and 1888. 



Rev. JOHN A. B. WILSON, D.D. 

Rev. John A. B. Wilson, D.D., was born in 
Milton, Sussex County, Del., September 14, 
1818. His parents, Captain John P. and 
Sarah A. (Calhoun) Wilson, lived and died in 
the Methodist Episcopal Church in the same 
town. Their three sons all came early into 
the Church, and two of them are successful 
ministers. On February 25, 1866, he Avas 
converted and licensed to preach, and was 
employed by the Presiding Elder as a supply 
in July, 1868, on Sharptown Circuit. He 
was admitted to the Wilmington Conference 
in March, 1869. His ministerial labors have 
been attended by remarkable spiritual awak- 
enings and large accessions in all his charges. 
In 1883 he was appointed by Bishop Simpson 
to Salisbury District. Here his qualities of 
leadership, wise planning, and great capacity 
for work were marked by unprecedented 
success along all lines. At the conclusion of 
his term, in 1887, he was appointed to Dover 
District, where the same wonderful success 
has attended his labors. In June, 1887, Dick- 
inson College, by a unanimous vote of the 
faculty and trustees, conferred upon him the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was elected 
upon the first ballot to this General Confer- 
ence, being the youngest man ever sent by 
the Wilmington Conference to represent 
them. 

Dr. Wilson is endowed with an iron frame, 
a clear head, and a warm heart. Asa preacher 
he is clear, logical, thoughtful, intensely ear- 
nest, tender, and magnetic ; a man of mighty 
convictions, with the courage of them to a 
remarkable degree. He was married on March 
29, 1871, to Miss Mary E. Jefferson, of George- 
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and one daughter. The latter died in infancy, 
but the other children were all early brought 
into active relation to the work of the Church. 



REV. JOHN LANAHAN, D.D. 

Rev. John Lanahan, D.D., is the leader of 
the delegation from the. Baltimore Conference. 
He is one of the most eminent ministers in 
the Church, and in its chief counsels his wis- 
dom and ability receive hearty recognition. 
He entered the Baltimore Conference in 1838, 
and has filled many of its most prominent 
appointments, having also been for several 
terms Presiding Elder. He served as Book 
Agent at New York from 1808 to 1872. He 
was a member of the General Conference of 
1868, and of everyone since. During the war 
he was frequently consulted and trusted by 
the government, and his influence on the 
border was exceedingly valuable. Dr. Lana- 
han is now Superintendent of the Conference 
Book Depository. 



Rev. JAMES N. FITZGERALD, D.D. 

Rev. James N. FitzGerald was born in 
Newark, N. J., fifty years ago. His father was 
a thriving merchant. He was educated in the 
Law School at Princeton, studying for a time 
in the office of the late Frederick T. Frelins;- 
huysen, President Arthur's Secretary of State, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He 
practiced law for some three years, and was 
for a time associated in practice with Chancel- 
lor Runyon of New Jersey. In 1861 a power- 
ful religious awakening and revival occurred 
in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Newark. He was converted and gave 
up his law practice to become a Methodist 
itinerant, by joining, in April, 1862, the 
Newark Conference. After serving various 
churches as pastor he became in 1878 Presid- 
ing Elder of the Newton District, and in 1880 
of the Newark District. 



For eleven years he filled the office of sec- 
retary of the Newark Conference, extending 
from 1870 to and including 1880. During his 
ministerial career of over a quarter of a cent- 
ury he steadily advanced in influence. He 
early attracted the attention of the Church by 
his superior pastoral and pulpit abilities, fill- 
ing, to the satisfaction of all, charges of high 
rank. He was a delegate to the General Con- 
ferences of 1876, 1880, 1884, and 1888. In the 
first three of these he was an assistant secre- 
tary. In 1881 he was elected Recording Sec- 
retary of the Missionary Society of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, in which responsible 
position his eminent abilities have found a 
broad field of usefulness, and in which he has 
performed invaluable service. 



Rev. DANIEL A. G00DSELL, D.D. 

Rev. Daniel Ayres Goodseli, D.D., is a na- 
tive of Newburg, N. Y., and was born No- 
vember 5, 1840. His father was Rev. Buel 
Goodseli, an honored member of the New 
York East Conference, whose services to the 
Church are held in lastino; remembrance. He 
was educated at the New York University, 
and joined the New York East Conference in 
1859. His pastoral labors have included im- 
portant charges in Brooklyn and Connecticut, 
his last appointment having been at First 
Church, New Haven. For sixteen years he 
has served as secretary of his Conference. 
In 1887 he was elected to the editorship of 
Ziorfs Herald, at Boston, his term of service 
to commence on January 1, 1888. Before 
this date, however, he was chosen Secretary 
of the Board of Education of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and entered upon the 
duties of the position in July, 1887. His 
brief service in this important work has been 
crowned with large success. 

He received the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity from the Wesleyan University at 
Middletown, Conn. For the past eight years 




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lie has served as the literary editor of The 
Christian Advocate, in the fulfillment of 
which work he has shown the most discrimi- 
nating and scholarly abilities. 

He was a member of the General Confer- 
ences of 1876, 1880, and 1884, and was 
elected to the present General Conference at 
the head of his delegation by the largest vote 
ever given to any member of the New York 
East Conference in its entire history. 



REV. JAMES M. BUCKLEY, D.D., LL.D. 

Rev. James M. Buckley, D.D.. LL.D., of 
New York East Conference, was born in Rail- 
way, N. J., and was educated at Pennington 
Seminary and at Wesley an University. He 
studied theology at Exeter, N. H., and joined 
the New Hampshire Conference in 1858. His 
pastoral work has been performed in the New 
Hampshire, Detroit, and New York East 
Conferences. His literary labors have been 
extensive, both in periodical literature and in 
separate publications. He is the author of 
An Appeal to Persons of Sense and Reflection 
to Begin a Christian Life ; Christians and 
the Theater, and a work of an argumentative 
character, entitled Modern Miracles. He was 
a member of the General Conference of 1872, 
and of each succeeding session, and was one 
of the committee appointed by the General 
Conference of 1876 to revise the Hymn Book. 
His ability as a preacher and platform speaker 
is known throughout the Church. In 1880 
he was elected Editor of The Christian Advo- 
cate, and was re-elected in 1884 and 1888. As 
a debater he has few rivals, and as an editor 
stands in the front rank. 



REV. JAMES H. WILBUR, D.D. 

Before the assembling of the General Con- 
ference Rev. James H. AVilbur, D.D., re- 
ceived the divine call to the great assembly 

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of the first-born in heaven. He was born in 
or near the village of Lowville, N. Y., on the 
11th of September, 1811. He was favored, 
for his day, in having the advantage of a fair 
academic education, and the years of his early 
manhood were spent in secular pursuits. In 
March, 1881, he was married to Miss Lucretia 
Ann Stephens, who preceded him to the 
better land by only twenty-six days. One 
month after their marriage he and his wife 
were converted and soon became members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. In July, 
1832, he was received into the Black River 
Conference, and entered on his life-work as a 
Methodist preacher. He traveled in succes- 
sion Brunswick, Louisville, Chateangay, and 
Brasher Circuits, when he "was appointed to 
the work in Oregon. The magnificent propor- 
tions of the Methodism of the Portland of 
to-day rest, humanly speaking, on the corner- 
stone that he laid. With a zeal that was tire- 
less and an ecclesiastical statesmanship that 
was unerring he prepared the way for the 
establishment of our Church in that then 
unsettled territory. 

Father Wilbur for more than twenty years 
devoted his best energies to the work of the 
redemption of the Indians. The last five 
years of his life were employed as Educa- 
tional and Church Extension agent for the 
Columbia River Conference. His name will 
be long remembered throughout the Church. 



REV. HENRY A. BUTTZ, D.D. 

Rev. Henry A. Buttz, D.D.', President of 
Drew Theological Seminary, was admitted in- 
to the Newark Conference in 1858, and has 
ever since been identified with that body. 
After filling a number of appointments in 
several cities he was appointed tutor in Drew 
Seminary. He became Professor of New 
Testament exegesis, and in 1880, on the 
election of Dr. John F. Hurst to the episco- 
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this foremost of the higher educational es- 
tablishments of Methodism. He is admira- 
bly qualified for this high office by his ripe 
scholarship and his rare executive skill. His 
pen has been vigorously employed, and his 
able contributions to the literature of the 
Church have commanded thoughtful attention. 
He has published among other works a 
valuable edition of the Greek Testament. 



ROBERT R. DOHERTY, ESQ. 

Robert R. Doherty was born December 24, 
1847. His primary studies were conducted 
by his mother at home. He spent two years 
in a public school in New York city for the 
purpose of graduation to the New York Col- 
lege. His college course, however, was broken 
by ill health, and he was forced for a time to 
give up study. After some months of rest he 
entered business, seeking by preference em- 
ployment from a book publisher. By way of 
the printing office he entered his chosen profes- 
sion — that of literature. He has been for five 
years Assistant Editor of The Christian Ad- 
vocate, having succeeded Rev. Dr. W. H. 
DePuy in that position. He served as reserve 
delegate from the Newark Conference in the 
General Conference in 1884, in the place of 
Chancellor Runyon, and was one of its secre- 
taries in 1888. While the latter Conference 
was in session he received the degree of Ph.D. 
from Grant University. 



Rev. JAMES R. DAY, D.D. 

Rev. James R. Day, D.D., was bora in 
Whitneyville, Me., October 17, 1845, and 
was converted at Monmouth, in the same 
State, in April, 1866. He was educated at 
Kent's Hill, the Maine Conference Seminary, 
from which he was graduated after complet- 
ing the classical and scientific courses. He 
then entered Bowdoin College, but was com- 



pelled by failing health to abandon his studies. 
He entered the Maine Conference in 1872, 
and in four years reached its leading appoint- 
ment, Chestnut Street, Portland. He has also 
been pastor at Main Street, Nashua, N. H. ; 
Grace Church, Boston, and St. Paul's, New 
York city. While in Boston he was elected 
trustee of Boston University, and is a mem- 
ber of the Missionary Board. He had the 
honor of preaching the anniversary sermon of 
the American Institute of Philosophy in 1886, 
which was accorded high praise. A number 
of his sermons have been published, and his 
services have been in large demand at college 
commencements and on many other important 
occasions. His degree of D.D. was conferred 
upon him during the same week by Wesleyan 
University and Dickinson College. 

Dr. Day is a preacher of remarkable power, 
and has especially endeared himself by his 
genial social qualities. His election as dele- 
gate from the New York Conference attests 
his popularity among the members of that 
body, with which he has been associated for 
only five years. 



Rev. THOMAS H. BURCH. 

The ministerial service of Rev. Thomas H. 
Burch has been performed wholly within the 
bounds of the New York East Conference, 
which he entered in 1850. Few ministers 
have reached a more exalted place in the 
hearts of their people than that occupied by 
Mr. Burch. He was educated for the legal 
profession, but being called of God to the 
work of preaching he re-arranged his life-plans 
and entered upon his sacred calling. His 
ministry has been a succession of triumphs, 
achieved through tireless effort and self-sacri- 
fice. In 1881 and 1882 he was Presiding 
Elder of the New York District, and the next 
year became for a second time pastor of 
Trinity Church, New York city, where his 
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received many hearty tributes of affection. 
He is now in the third year of a successful 
term at Tabernacle Church, Brooklyn, of 
which he was pastor also in 1873 and 1874. 



GIOVANNI MARTINI, ESQ. 

The lay electors of the Italy Conference 
chose as their representative Giovanni Martini, 
Esq., whose name is closely identified with 
the work of our missionary enterprises in that 
land. His extensive business interests do not 
in any degree interfere with his faithful alle- 
giance and co-operation in the advance move- 
ments of Methodism. This important and 
growing branch of our Church may well re- 
joice in numbering among its membership this 
earnest adherent. 



Rev. JOHN MILEY, D.D. 

The scholarly services of Rev. John Miley, 
D.D., have won for his name a wide celebrity. 
His ministerial life began with his entrance 
into the Ohio Conference in 1838, from which 
he was transferred, in 1852, to the New York 
East Conference. He here served a number 
of important appointments, and in 1866 
became a member of the New York Confer- 
ence, and was pastor successively of the First 
Church, Newburg, 1866-68 ; Sing Sing, 1869- 
71 ; and St. Paul's, Peekskill, 1872. In the 
following year he was elected Professor in 
Drew Theological Seminary, in which posi- 
tion he has since wielded a mighty influence 
in the work of Christian education. Many of 
the men now in the ranks of the itinerancy 
attribute much of their success to his wise 
guidance in the preparation for their life-work. 

Dr. Miley has enriched our literature with 
a work on Class- Meetings, and his Atone- 
ment in Christ is universally esteemed as a 
valuable contribution to our doctrinal stand- 
ards. 



LEAVITT BATES, Esq. 

On Sunday, May 6, while in New York city 
asadeleo-ate from the New England Southern 
Conference, Leavitt Bates, Esq., was sum- 
moned to join the hosts of the Church tri- 
umphant. He was a native of East Wey- 
mouth, Mass., and was born August 14, 1843. 
He was converted at about the age of eighteen, 
and at once united with the Church in East 
Weymouth, of which he was a constant and 
faithful member until he died. He resided 
all his life in the town of his nativity, except 
during a period covering the term of two 
enlistments in the Union army. Soon after 
the close of the war he married. His wife 
and three children live to revere the memory 
of a devoted and loving husband and father. 

Mr. Bates was a member of the firm of 
Smith, Bates & Co., wholesale dealers in and 
manufacturers of men's clothing. He was a 
member of the Clothing Dealers' Exchange, a 
Vice-President of the Boston Methodist Social 
Union, a loyal comrade of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, and in all these and other posi- 
tions honored the confidence reposed in him. 
He was diligent in business and fervent in 
spirit ; an attendant upon all the means of 
grace, and a constant and valued friend of his 
pastors. Growing and progressive, he was 
deeply interested in every moral reform, and 
especially in the growth and development of 
the Church of his choice. 



JOSEPH PEARL, ESQ. 

Joseph Pearl, Esq., was chosen as the lay 
representative from the Oregon Conference 
to the General Conference. In his election 
his brethren manifested a just appreciation of 
the valued services which have marked all the 
years of his connection with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He is a farmer, and for- 
gets not to render unto the Lord the first- 
fruits of the harvest. 



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JONS PEHRSSON, ESQ. 

Jons Pehrsson, Esq., lay delegate from 
Sweden Conference, is a civil engineer, and a 
resident of Delary, Sweden. He is an earnest 
worker in spreading among his countrymen 
the light of the Gospel, and our Church owes 
much to his energy and support in this dis- 
tant field of its operations. 



Rev. CHARLES J. CLARK, D.D. 

Rev. Charles J. Clark, D.D., who led the 
Maine Conference delegation, was suddenly 
called from labor to reward a few days after 
the convening of the General Conference. He 
was born in Portland, Me., April 6, 1839, and 
died in New York city, May 6, 1888. In 
early life he was obliged to struggle in order 
to secure an education, which developed the 
rare business qualities which he ever after 
exhibited, and which contributed largely to 
his success. Hi-* conversion occurred in his 
early manhood. His ministry was marked by 
wonderful success in the imratherinsr of souls 
on all his fields of labor. A large part of his 
ministerial life was spent in the city of his 
birth. In fact, he had but three pastorates 
elsewhere, two in the Maine Conference and 
one in Boston. He was honored by an elec- 
tion to three successive General Conferences, 
twice at the head of his delegation, and each 
time with an increased majority. Notwith- 
standing a rule in his Conference against thr^e 
successive elections to the General Conference 
he received at the late session all but eleven 
votes on the first ballot. He served for eight 
years on the Book Committee, and was its 
secretary for four years. He was also elected 
as one of the secretaries of the General Con- 
ference in 1884, and was re-elected at the 
opening of the session of 1888. He was em- 
phatically a man of one work — that of the 
extension of Christ's kingdom. His was a 
manly life and a triumphant death. 



Rev. BRADFORD P. RAYMOND, D.D. 

The leader of the Wisconsin Conference 
delegation is Rev. Bradford P. Raymond, 
D.D. He was born in Stamford, Conn., April 
22, 1846. One year of his active life was 
spent in the army. He was graduated from 
Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis., in 
1870, and from Boston Theological School in 
1873. In the latter year he entered Provi- 
dence Conference, and for six years did faith- 
ful pastoral service, being stationed at Allen 
Street, New Bedford, and Chestnut Street, 
Providence. He spent one year in study at 
Leipsic and Gottingen, and in 1881 became 
pastor of the Church at Nashua, N. H. In 
1883 he was elected President of Lawrence 
University, and under his able administration 
the institution has attained a hio;h standard 
of scholarship and usefulness. His eminent 
abilities in the educational field are univer- 
sally recognized. 



REV. JAMES I. BOSWELL. 

Rev. James Iverson Boswell, delegate from 
the Newark Conference, was born in the city 
of Philadelphia, Pa., November 3, 1837. He 
attended the Central High School in that city, 
and in 1858 was graduated from Dickinson 
College, completing his course of study in the 
Union Theological Seminary of New York 
city. Uniting with the Newark Conference, 
he has served important charges and made an 
excellent record. For several years he was 
an editorial writer for The Methodist, and at 
present contributes frequently to a number of 
our Sunday-school publications. Mr. Boswell 
is a ready debater, and is active in the dis- 
cussions of his Conference and the Preachers' 
Meeting. In 1880 he traveled in Europe and 
the Holy Land. At present he is stationed 
at Nyack, N. Y. He is abreast with the times 
in thoughts on the live issues of the day, and 
fearlessly expresses them. 



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REV. ALFRED WHEELER, D.D. 

This highly honored member of the Erie 
Conference was born in New Haven, O., Sep- 
tember 14, 1824. Converted at sixteen, he 
entered Ohio Wesleyan University, and was 
graduated with honor. He is also a graduate 
of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
phia. In 1853 he entered North Ohio Con- 
ference, where he did efficient work as pastor 
and Presiding Elder. During the war he 
was chaplain in the army for (me year, and 
was for five months surgeon of a battery, 
without commission or pay, and was present 
at the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettys- 
burg, and in the campaign of Fredericksburg. 
Since his transfer to Erie Conference he has 
represented that body in several General Con- 
ferences. In 1876 he was elected Editor of 
the Pittsburg Christian Advocate, and was 
re-elected in 1880 by a unanimous vote. He 
possesses literary ability of a high order, and 
is an excellent preacher. He is now Presid- 
ing Elder of the New Castle District. 



Rev. JOSEPH C. HARTZELL, D. D. 

Rev. Joseph C. Hartzell, D. D., was born 
on a farm in Illinois, of good Methodist par- 
entage, June 1, 1842. He was converted 
when a boy, and felt from the first that his 
life-work was to be that of a Christian minis- 
ter. Beginning at sixteen, he gave eleven years 
to educating himself, relying entirely upon 
his own efforts for support. In 1868 he com- 
pleted a classical course in Illinois Wesleyan 
University, and a theological course in Garrett 
Biblical Institute, taking the degrees of A. B. 
and B. D. In 1875 he received the degree 
of D.D. from Illinois Wesleyan University 
and from Allegheny College. He joined Cen- 
tral Illinois Conference in the fall of 1868, 
and was stationed at Pekin, 111. In 1869 he 
married Miss Jennie Culver, of Chicago, and 
in February of the following year was trans- 



ferred to New Orleans, where for three years 
he was pastor of St. Charles Avenue Church. 
During the nine years following he was Pre- 
siding Elder on New Orleans and adjacent 
districts, and was for three years a member of 
the public school board in New Orleans, tak- 
ing prominent part in developing the public 
schools of that city. He had the yellow fever 
in New Orleans in 1870, and cholera on Ba- 
you Teehe, La., in 1873. In the latter year 
he began the publication of the South-west- 
ern Christian Advocate in New Orleans, and 
carried it as a private enterprise until its 
adoption by the General Conference in 1876. 
He was its editor until February, 1881, when 
he resigned to become Assistant Correspond- 
ing Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, 
in which position he has done noble work. 
He is the leader of the delegation from the 
Louisiana Conference. 



STANLEY MURRAY, ESQ. 

Stanley Murray, Esq., of Secunderabad, 
India, was elected to represent the laymen of 
the South India Conference. His large sym- 
pathies and faithful aid in every department 
of the mission work of Methodism in that 
country entitle him fairly to this post of 
honor, in the duties of which he is well 
qualified to do good service. 



JOHN E. BRYANT, ESQ. 

John E. Bryant, Esq., lay delegate from 
Georgia Conference, was born in Wayne, 
Me., October 13, 1835, and was educated 
at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. He read 
law with Hon. Nehemiah Abbott, of Belfast, 
and the Hon. S. C. Andrews, of Buckfield, 
and was admitted to the bar at Paris, Me., in 
1866. In September, 1861, he entered the 
Union army as an officer in the 8th Maine 
Infantry, serving three }^ears, and was ap- 
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"gallant and meritorious service during the 
war. 1 ' He removed to Atlanta, Ga., and was 
active in the work of reconstruction. He 
served as a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1867-68, and was a representative 
in the General Assembly of 1868-70 and the 
Republican candidate for Congress in the 
Savannah District in 1874 and 1876. He 
was appoint ed Postmaster of Augusta, Ga., by 
President Grant in 1869, and was United 
States marshal for the Northern District of 
Georgia under President Arthur. He advo- 
cated the rights of the colored people for 
many years by the publication of a news- 
paper at Augusta, which he established in 
1866. Converted at Atlanta in 1868, he united 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
is now a member of the Marietta Street Church 
in that city. He was a member of the Gen- 
eral Conference' of 1884. 



Rev. MARQUIS D. HAWES. 

Rev. Marquis D. Hawes, of the Illinois 
delegation, was elected by a highly gratifying 
vote of his Conference. He is pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Mattoon, 111., 
and is greatly beloved for his many excellent 
qualities of mind and heart. In the ministry 
he has had conspicuous success in every field 
of effort, and been identified with many scenes 
of ingathering and progress. Over a wide 
area his name is as ointment poured forth. _ 



JOHN S. HETHERINGTON, ESQ. 

John S. Hetherington, Esq., is the lay dele- 
gate from the Austin Conference. His father 
is the Rev. C. Hetherington, now residing in 
Peoria, 111., who came to this country from 
Carlisle, England, immediately after his mar- 
riage, and settled in Webster, Mass., where 
the subject of this sketch was born. When 
he was quite young the family moved to Indi- 
ana, and here he was converted. Early in his 



Christian life he was appointed Sunday-school 
superintendent and class-leader, and exercised 
his gifts with fidelity and wisdom. He was 
married at Indianapolis to Miss Ada Briggs, 
an earnest Christian worker, and in 1880 
moved to Dallas, Tex., his present home. He 
has been a trustee of Texas Wesleyan College 
since its founding, and took an active part in 
the Prohibition campaign in Texas in 1887. 



REV. JOHN E. ROBINSON. 

The name of Rev. John E. Robinson is one 
closely identified with the missionary move- 
ments of Methodism in India. He was admit- 
ted on trial in the Central Illinois Conference 
in 1874, and was immediately transferred to 
the Indiana Conference. In the following 
January he was appointed to the work in 
India. From that date to the present he" 
has been indefatigable in his labors, and has 
won for himself an undying fame as a self- 
sacrificino; laborer in this vast harvest-field. 
His efforts have been crowned with marvel- 
ous success, and thousands owe to him their 
birth into the kingdom of Christ. He is now 
the Presiding Elder of the Bombay District, 
South India Conference. 



REV. GEORGE LEIDY. 

Rev. George Leidy, of the Central Pennsyl- 
vania Conference delegation, was born in 
Centre County, Pa., August 5, 1840. On his 
father's side he is a Methodist of the third 
generation, and on his mother's side his 
ancestry is of the old school Scotch Presby- 
terian Church. Converted at the age of sev- 
enteen, he was licensed to exhort at eighteen 
and to preach when twenty. He entered the 
East Baltimore Conference in 1861, and on 
its division, twenty years ago, he became a 
member of the Central Pennsylvania Confer- 
ence. He has filled prominent appointments, 
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Elder of the Altoona District, within the 
bounds of which he has served as pastor and 
in his present office for fourteen years. Phys- 
ically he is one of the " giants " of his Con- 
ference, being six feet three inches in height, 
and in intellectual capacity ranks well. He 
is conservative in his views regarding Meth- 
odist Church polity, but in the work of the 
Church there are few more progressive. 



JOHN C. BARDALL, ESQ. 

John C. Bardall was born on the ocean, 
April 14, 1839, and passed the early years of 
his life in Cumberland and Perry Counties, 
Pa. In June, 1855, he went to Wellsville, 
York County, Pa., and in the following year 
learned the trade of leather whip making. 
He was converted October 18, 1856, and was 
married February 6, 1859. In the spring of 
1861 he commenced the manufacture of whips 
in the Western Pennsylvania House of Refuge, 
and was subsequently a member of the firm 
of E. Weaver & Co., and also that of Weaver 
& Bardall. For many years he was a mem- 
ber of Arch Street Church, Philadelphia, and 
was a class-leader from 1863 to 1877, when 
he removed to West Virginia. He now serves 
as class-leader, steward, Sunday-school super- 
intendent, exhorter, and president of the board 
of trustees. He was elected a reserve lay dele- 
gate from West Virginia Conference. 



ROBERT N. ALLEN, ESQ. 

Robert N. Allen, Esq., is a banker of Cha- 
nute, Kan., and is one of the lay representa- 
tives of the South Kansas Conference. His 
business career has been marked by success 
achieved through honorable enterprise, and in 
his relations to the Church he has displayed 
unswerving fidelity in the various offices to 
which he has been chosen. In social life his 
genial manners have gained for him many 
friends. 



Rev. GEORGE H. DRYER. 

Rev. George H. Dryer, of the Genesee Con- 
ference, was born in Mendon, Monroe County, 
N. Y., December 15, 1849, and when three 
years old removed to East Rush, in the same 
county. He became enrolled at Genesee Col- 
lege in 1867, and after careful study here he 
entered Syracuse University, from which he 
was graduated in 1872. Entering the East 
Genesee Conference in 1871, he has had 
charge successively of the churches at Scotts- 
burg, Richmond, Springville, Tonawanda, 
Brockport, and Leroy. He is highly esteemed 
in his Conference, and is its assistant treasurer. 
He has been treasurer of the Mutual Aid 
Society since 1880, and for three years has 
been a trustee of the Genesee Wesleyan Sem- 
inary. He is now pastor at Medina. 



Hon. JOHN EVANS. 

Hon. John Evans, lay delegate from Colo- 
rado Conference, is a native of Ohio. He 
pursued the study of medicine, and settled in 
Indiana, where, after practicing a few years, he 
became director of the Insane Asylum in 
Indianapolis. He accepted the chair of pro- 
fessor in a medical college in Indiana, and 
shortly afterward in Chicago, where he became 
joint editor of the leading medical journal. 
He was active in founding the North-western 
University, and from him the village was 
called Evanston. He was appointed Governor 
of Colorado by President Lincoln, and since 
that time has been engaged in vast railroad 
enterprises. He united with our Church in 
1843, and has been a member of several Gen- 
eral Conferences. 



Rev. JOSEPH H. MANSFIELD, D.D. 

Rev. Joseph H. Mansfield, D.D., was born 
at Whitehall, N. Y., November 25, 1 837. His 
boyhood days were spent on the farm. The 
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were diligently used during the winter months 
of the year. At the age of sixteen he was 
converted, and in 1857 he entered the acad- 
emy at Poultney, Vt., to prepare for college, 
and for the work of the ministry. In 1861 
he entered Wesleyan University, and was 
graduated in 1865, and three years later took 
the degree of Master of Arts. He paid his 
way through the preparation for college and 
in college by teaching. In 1865 he married 
Miss Pamelia S. Murray, a native of Vermont, 
who was then a teacher in art in Mount Alli- 
son Female College, New Brunswick. He 
was admitted on trial in the New England 
Conference in 1866, and has served some of 
its largest and most important churches. His 
pastorates have been eminently successful in 
building up the churches he has served. In 
1886 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the 
Lynn District. The degree of Doctor of Di- 
vinity was conferred upon him in 1886 by 
the New Orleans University, and also by 
Baker University. 



EUGENE A. WEBSTER, ESQ. 

Eugene A. Webster, Esq., lay delegate 
from the South Carolina Conference, was 
born at Montpelier, Vt., February 16, 1849. 
He was graduated from Wesleyan University 
in 1872, receiving the degree of A.M. three 
years later. From 1872-74 he was Professor 
in Claflin University, and from the latter date 
until 1877 was editor and proprietor of The 
Citizen, a paper published at Orangeburg, 
S. C. In 1877 he was admitted to practice as 
attorney and counselor at law. He has held 
several important State and federal positions, 
and was elected a delegate to the National 
Republican Convention in 1884 and to that of 
the present year. Mr. Webster is active in 
all Church work, and is a hearty supporter of 
the various benevolences. For the last two 
years he has been the Assistant Editor of the 
Methodist Messenger. 



Rev. WILLIAM J. PAXSON, D.D. 

Rev. William J. Paxson, D.D., delegate 
from the Philadelphia Conference, was born in 
the city of Philadelphia, on the 15th of Decem- 
ber, 1826. He received an academic educa- 
tion, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 
1853 he united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and soon thereafter commenced evan- 
gelical work, visiting prisons and exhorting. 
He was admitted into the Philadelphia Con- 
ference in 1856, and soon attained a posi- 
tion of distinction, serving many prominent 
churches and doing valuable work as Presid- 
ing Elder and as Conference secretary. As a 
member of the Board of Church Extension 
for many years he did much to advance the 
interests of that cause. He was also a mem- 
ber of the General Conferences of 1876, 1880, 
and 1884. 



REV. J. ALBERT HYDEN. 

Rev. J. Albert Hyden, one of the delegates 
from the South Kansas Conference, was born 
in Roane County, Tenn., in 1829, brought up in 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and 
admitted to the traveling connection in the 
Holston Conference of that Church in 1851. 
The son of a soldier of the Revolution, Mr. 
Hyden enlisted during the Civil War under 
the flag of the Union. He was commissioned 
chaplain in the United States army by Presi- 
dent Lincoln, and served until the close of the 
war, when he became a minister of our Church. 
After serving eight years consecutively in 
the presiding eldership, and filling important 
pastoral charges in the Holston Conference, 
he was transferred, in 1877, to the South Kan- 
sas Conference, where he is serving his third 
year as Presiding Elder of the Independence 
District. Although not favored in early life 
with first-class educational advantages, he is 
a good English scholar and an able theologian, 
and is a man of influence and usefulness in 
any field of labor to which he may be called. 



BISHOPS AND MISSIONARY BISHOPS. 



Rev. THOMAS BOWMAN, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop Thomas Bowman, the beloved 
senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, is a native of Berwick, Pa., and was 
born on July 15, 1817. After studying at 
Wilbraham and Cazenovia Academies he was 
graduated from Dickinson College with first 
honors in 1837, and entered the ministry in 
1839. His conversion took place January 1, 
1833, and he was married July 13, 1841, to 
Miss Matilda Harrman, of York, Pa. He was 
ordained deacon and elder by Bishop Waugh 
in Baltimore, and has been a member of the 
Baltimore, East Baltimore, South-east Indiana, 
and North Indiana Conferences. 

He was for ten years Principal of Dickinson 
Seminary, and for fourteen years was Presi- 
dent of Indiana Asbury University. In both 
of these positions he wielded an influence of 
great and abiding benefit, and endeared him- 
self to all who came into relation with him. 
The degrees of A.B. and A.M. were conferred 
upon him in course by Dickinson College, 
and he received that of D.D. from Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, and that of LL.D. from 
Dickinson College. He was the first of the 
eight bishops elected at the General Confer- 
ence of 1872. 



Rev. RANDOLPH S. FOSTER, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop Randolph S. Foster was born in 
Williamsburg, Clermont County, O., Febru- 
ary 22, 1820. He was educated at Augusta 
College, Ky., and entered upon the work of 
the itinerancy in his eighteenth year, when 
he was received into the Ohio Conference. He 

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was a member of this body from 1837-50 ; of 
New York Conference from September, 1850, 
to May, 1854 ; of New York East Conference 
from 1854-56; and of New York Conference 
again from 1856 to his election as bishop in 
1872. He was ordained deacon by Bishop 
Waugh and elder by Bishop Hedding. He 
was married to Miss Sarah A. Miley. For 
three years he was President of North-west- 
ern University, and was elected President of 
Troy University, which honor he declined. 
He became Professor of Systematic Theology 
in Drew Theological Seminary in 1868, and 
in 1870, on the death of the venerated Dr. 
John McClintock, was elected to the presi- 
dency of that institution. He received the 
degrees of A.M. and D.D. from Ohio Wesley- 
an University, and LL.D. from North-western 
University. He is the author of Cliristian 
Purity, Beyondthe Grave, Centenary Thoughts 
for the Pew and Pulpit of Methodism in 
1 884, some controversial writings on Calvin- 
ism, a scholarly -work on Systematic Theol- 
ogy, and a number of other volumes. 



REV. STEPHEN M. MERRILL, D.D. 

Bishop Stephen M. Merrill is a native of 
Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, O., where 
he was born September 16, 1825. His par- 
ents subsequently removed to Greenfield, O. 
Here, on October 31, 1842, he united with 
the Church, and in 1845 was licensed to 
preach, being employed by the Presiding 
Elder. His entrance into the Ohio Conference 
in the following year marked the formal be- 
ginning of a ministry blessed of God in rich 



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results. To an elementary training he added 
a knowledge of a wide range of literature, 
and was honored with the degree of A.M. in 
1864 from Indiana Asbury University. He 
was a member of the General Conference in 
1868, while Presiding Elder of the Marietta 
District. He distinguished himself in the 
debates of that body, and was elected to the 
Editorship of the Western Christian Advo- 
cate. In 1872 he was elected Bishop. His 
ability as a writer is attested by his works on 
Christian Baptism, The Second' Coming of 
Christ, The New Testament Idea of Hell, and 
others. 



Rev. EDWARD G. ANDREWS, D.D. 

Bishop Edward G. Andrews was born in 
New Hartford, Oneida County, N. Y., August 
7, 1825, and was converted and united with 
the Church in childhood. In 1847 he was 
graduated from Wesleyan University, and 
was admitted into the Oneida Conference in 
the following year. His marriage to Miss 
Susa,n M. Hotchkiss took place at Cheshire, 
Conn., August 7, 1851. He Avas ordained 
deacon by Bishop Janes and elder by Bishop 
Scott. From 1854 to 1864 he was connected 
with Oneida Conference Seminary, as pro- 
fessor for two years and as principal for eight. 
From this sphere of service he again entered 
into pastoral work, being placed in charge of 
the church at Stamford, Conn., in the New 
York East Conference. After three years 
here he was appointed successively to Sands 
Street, St. John's, and Seventh Avenue 
churches, Brooklyn. While pastor at the 
latter, in 1872, the Church called him to its 
highest office, and he was elected Bishop at 
the Geueral Conference held in Brooklyn. Flis 
episcopal duties have called him to travel ex- 
tensively among our missions in Europe and 
Asia. He received the decrees of A.B. and 
A.M. in course from Wesleyan University, 
and D.D. from Genesee College. 



REV. HENRY W. WARREN, D.D. 

Bishop Henry W. Warren was born Janu- 
ary 4, 1831, at Williamsburg, Mass. He was 
educated at Wilbraham, Mass., and at Wes- 
leyan University. From the latter institution 
he was graduated in 1853, and during the 
next two years was Professor of Natural 
Science at Amenia Seminary, N. Y., and Pro- 
fessor of Ancient Languages at Wesleyan 
Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. In the year 
1855 he entered the New England Confer- 
ence. His superior abilities as a preacher 
soon won him fame, and in 1871 he was trans- 
ferred to Philadelphia Conference and as- 
signed to Arch Street Church. Three years 
later he was transferred to New York East 
Conference and stationed at St. John's, Brook- 
lyn. After three years here he was again 
appointed to Arch Street, Philadelphia, whence 
he went in 1880 to Spring Garden Street 
Church in the same city. Two months later, 
at the General Conference in Brooklyn, he 
was elected Bishop. 

Bishop Warren Avas ordained deacon in 
1857 by Bishop Baker, and elder by Bishop 
Ames in 1859. Wesleyan University con- 
ferred upon him the degree of A.B., and 
Dickinson College that of D.D. He is the 
author of Recreations in Astronomy, and of 
a very instructive volume entitled Sights and 
Insights ; or. Knowledge by Travel. 



REV. CYRUS D. FOSS, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop Cyrus D. Foss is a native of Kings- 
ton, N. Y., and was born January 17, 1834. 
He was converted in 1852, and soon became 
convinced of a call to the ministry. He was 
graduated from Wesleyan University in 1854, 
and spent three years in Amenia Seminary as 
professor and principal. In 1857 he entered 
the New York Conference, and two years 
later was transferred to the New York East 
and appointed to Fleet Street, Brooklyn. 
From this time he occupied leading pulpits in 



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New York and Brooklyn, and in 1865 was 
re-transferred to New York Conference, with 
■which body lie was identified in 1875, when 
lie was elected President of Wesleyan Uni- 
versity. A remarkable degree of prosperity 
attended the University during his super- 
vision, and the Endowment Fund advanced 
to grand proportions. His eminent qualifica- 
tions for administration of the Church's chief 
interests were further recognized by the Gen- 
eral Conference of 1872, by which body he was 
elected to the episcopacy. 

Bishop Foss was married in March, 1856, 
to Miss Mary E. Bradley, who died Septem- 
ber 7, 1868, and in 1865 he married Miss 
Amelia Robertson, of Peekskill, N. Y. His 
alma mater honored him with the degree of 
D.D., and that of LL.D. was bestowed by 
Cornell College. 



REV. JOHN F. HURST, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop John F. Hurst was born in Dor- 
chester County, Md., August 17, 1834, and 
was converted in 1849. He was graduated 
from Dickinson College in 1854, and for two 
years was a teacher in Heckling Institute, 
when he went abroad to study and travel, and 
completed his theological studies at the Uni- 
versities of Halle and Heidelberg. In 1859 
he was married to Catherine Elizabeth La 
Monte. He entered Newark Conference in 
1858, and in 1866 was elected Principal of the 
Theological Department of the Mission Insti- 
tute at Bremen, Germany, continuing in this 
office after its removal to Frankfort-on-the- 
Main. In 1871 he became Professor of His- 
torical Theology in Drew Theological Sem- 
inary, and succeeded Bishop Foster as Presi- 
dent in the following year. His successful 
conduct of its affairs verified the wisdom of 
this choice, and in 1880 he was elevated to 
the highest office in the Church. 

Bishop Hurst is the author of a very able 



History of Rationalism, Bibliotheca Theolog- 
ica, a delightful volume called Life and 
Literature in the Fatherland, and is joint 
author with Rev. G. R. Crooks, D.D., of 
Theological Encyclopaedia and Methodology. 
He has also translated Hagen bach's History 
of the Church in the Eighteenth and Nine- 
teenth Centuries, and other important works. 
He received the degree of D.D. from his 
alma mater, and that of LL.D. from Dickin- 
son College and also from Indiana Asbuiy 
University. 



REV. WILLIAM X. NINDE, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop William X. Ninde was born in 
Cortland, N. Y., in 1832, and is the son of a 
preacher. His education was obtained at 
Wesleyan University, from which institution 
he was graduated with honor in 1855. In 
the following year he joined the Black River 
Conference, where he served several important 
churches. In 1861 he was transferred to Cin- 
cinnati, and was appointed pastor of Trinity 
Church. In 1870 he became a member of the 
Detroit Conference, and pastor of Central 
Church, Detroit, the leading charge in that 
city. During his pastoral life his superior 
qualifications as an educator were amply 
demonstrated, and in 1873 he was elected 
to the Chair of Practical Theology in Gar- 
rett Biblical Institute, and six years later 
was elevated to the office of President. In 
the year 1874 he was honored with the de- 
gree of Doctor of Divinity by his alma 
mater. 

Bishop Ninde made a tour of Europe and 
the East in 1868-69, and his correspondence 
in our Church papers gave evidence of his 
ability as a writer. He was a member of the 
Ecumenical Conference in 1881, where he 
delivered an address remarkable for eloquence 
and beauty of thought. His election to the 
episcopacy took place in 1884. 



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REV. JOHN M. WALDEN, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop John M. Walden was born in Leb- 
anon, O., February 11, 1831, and spent his 
early life on a farm. Afterward, while en- 
gaged as a clerk, he devoted his leisure time 
to reading, and later he entered Farmers Col- 
lege, and was graduated in 1852. He was 
immediately appointed to a tutorship, and 
two years later became interested in a jour- 
nalistic enterprise. He served as a member 
of the Legislature, and was elected State Su- 
perintendent of Public Instruction. Convert- 
ed in 1850, he was soon after licensed as a 
local preacher, and in 1858 was admitted into 
the Cincinnati Conference. He soon rose to 
command prominent appointments. He be- 
came Corresponding Secretary of the Western 
Freed men's Aid Society, and was so engaged 
until the formation of our Freedmen's Aid 
Society, of which he was one of the foremost 
movers and its first Corresponding Secretary. 
AVhile Presiding Elder of the East Cincinnati 
District, in 1868, he was elected Agent of the 
Western Book Concern, and was re-elected in 
1872, 1876, and 1880. In 1884 he was 
elected to the highest office in the gift of the 
Church. He has been a prolific writer on 
temperance and education, and has lectured 
extensively on these subjects. He was also 
a prominent member of the Ecumenical Con- 
ference in London in 1881. 



Rev. WILLARD F. MALLALIEU, D.D. 

Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu is of Hugue- 
not and Puritan descent, and inherits the 
sterling qualities of these sturdy people. He 
was born in Sutton, Worcester County, Mass., 
December 11, 1828. He received his prepara- 
tory education at the common schools, and East 
Greenwich and Wilbraham Academies, after 
which he was graduated with honor, after a 
full course, from Wesleyan University. He 
was converted September 15, 1840, and im- 
mediately united with the Methodist Episco- 



pal church. He entered the New England 
Conference in 1858, remaining steadily in the 
pastorate until 1882, when he became Presid- 
ing Elder of Boston District. It was from 
this position that the Church called him in 
1884 to the episcopal office. During the year 
1875 he visited Europe, and greatly enriched 
his mind by study and observation in the Old 
World. He has contributed largely to our 
Church periodicals, and his papers are char- 
acterized by a fresh, classic finish. Induce- 
ments to forsake his work of the pastorate 
were offered him by churches of other de- 
nominations, and official positions in schools 
and colleges were at his command, but he re- 
fused every such overture. He is greatly 
esteemed for his courtly manners and genial 
temperament. 



REV. CHARLES H. FOWLER, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop Charles H. Fowler was born in 
Burford, Canada, August 11, 1837. Four 
years afterward he removed to Illinois, where 
his early years were spent on a farm. He be- 
came a student in Hock River Seminary in 
1851, and early in 1855 entered Genesee Wes- 
leyan Seminary (now Syracuse University), 
and in the fall of the same year was enrolled 
in Genesee College, from which he was grad- 
uated in 1859 with the highest honors in his 
class. He immediately commenced the study 
of law in Chicago, but before the year closed 
he was converted, and he entered Garrett 
Biblical Institute in March, 1860, and was 
graduated in 1861. In the fall of that year 
he was admitted into the Bock River Confer- 
ence, and rapidly rose to eminence as a 
preacher, filling full terms at four of the 
largest churches in Chicago. In 1866 he was 
elected to the presidency of North-western 
University, but he declined. He was elected 
to the position again in 1872, and accepted, 
serving with great ability until he was elected 
Editor of The Christian Advocate in 1876. 
Four years later he was chosen one of the 



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Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary 
Society, and rendered most valuable service 
in behalf of this noble cause. He was elected 
Bishop in 1884. 



REV. JOHN H. VINCENT, D.D., LL.D. 

A sketch of the life of Bishop Vincent will 
be found on page 46. His elevation to the 
episcopacy at this Conference is a fitting tes- 
timony to the exalted position he holds in 
the esteem of the Church in whose polity he 
has had a molding influence for many years. 



Rev. JAMES N. FITZGERALD, D.D. 

A brief summary of the principal events in 
the ministerial career of Bishop FitzGerald 
is given on page 168. His well-balanced, 
judicial mind and his varied abilities qualify 
him for wise administration in the affairs 
of the high office to which he has just been 
elected. 



Rev. ISAAC W. JOYCE, D.D. 

On page 41 of this volume will be found a 
record of the life of Bishop Joyce. His ear- 
nest fidelity and labors in the cause of Meth- 
odism have been appropriately crowned by 
his election to the highest honor in the 
Church of his early attachment. 



REV. JOHN P. NEWMAN, D.D., LL.D. 

Bishop John P. Newman was born in New 
York city, September 1, 1826, and at the age 
of sixteen united with the Church. He was 
educated at Cazenovia Seminary, and in 1849 
entered the Oneida Conference, and has been 
a member of the Troy, New York, Mississippi, 
and Baltimore Conferences. In 1858 he was 
appointed pastor of Bedford Street Church, 
New York, where his remarkable eloquence 



won him wide fame. In 1859 he went to 
Europe, spending a winter in study in Rome, 
and making a tour of Egypt and Palestine. 
On his return he published From Dan to Beer- 
shefra, which is regarded as an authority among 
biblical students. In 1862-63 he was pastor 
of the Washington Square Church in New 
York, and was then sent by Bishop Ames to 
reorganize the Methodist Episcopal Church 
in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. His 
services in this field were of vast benefit to 
the Church and to the government. In 
1869 he became pastor of the Metropolitan 
Church in Washington, and was for three 
terms Chaplain of the United States Senate. 
In the year 1873 he made a tour of the world, 
under appointment of President Grant. In 
1881, while pastor of Central Church, New 
York, he was appointed a member of the 
Ecumenical Conference. At the time of his 
recent election as Bishop he was serving a 
third term as pastor of the Metropolitan 
Church, Washington. He received the de- 
gree of D.D. from the Baptist University in 
Rochester, N. Y., and that of LL.D. from 
Grant Memorial University. He is also author 
of Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nin- 
eveh, and several other valuable works. 



Rev. DANIEL A. GOODSELL, D.D. 

The election to the episcopacy of this emi- 
nent minister is an event which gives satis- 
faction to the entire Church. Bishop Good- 
sell is a preacher of excellence, his sermons 
being marked by solidit}^ of thought and 
beauty of diction. An account of his life is 
presented on page 168. 



REV. WILLIAM TAYLOR, D.D. 

Bishop William Taylor was born May 2, 
1821, in Rockbridge County, Va, He be- 
came a member of the Baltimore Conference 
in March, 1843, having traveled six months 



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on the Franklin Circuit under the Presiding 
Elder. After serving a number of charges 
he was sent by the Missionary Society to San 
Francisco, Cal., where lie labored with re- 
markable success from 18-19 to 1856. He 
traveled at large as an evangelist for five years 
in the Eastern States and Canada, when he 
went to Australia. On the way he spent 
seven months in evangelistic work in England 
and Ireland, gave some time to the Continent, 
and explored Palestine and the pyramids of 
Egypt. After three years of energetic toil in 
the Australian colonies, Tasmania, and New 
Zealand, he went to Africa and led in that 
wonderful work of God among the Kaffirs, 
seven thousand of whom were converted in 
one year. He spent about a year in revival 
work in London and Scotland, laboring six 
days per week, and then made a most suc- 
cessful tour among the missions of the West 
Indian Islands and British Guiana, in South 



America. This was followed by another tour 
in Australia, and by a great work of God in 
Ceylon. He went thence to India in the latter 
end of 1870, and in 1872 commenced in Bom- 
bay the founding of self-supporting missions. 
The marvelous success of this undertaking is 
known to the world. His heroic labors dur- 
ing the last quadrennium as Missionary Bishop 
for Africa have resulted in incalculable ad- 
vantage to our Church in its evangelistic 
agency in that vast continent. 



Rev. JAMES M. THOBURN, D.D. 

The election as Missionar} 7 Bishop for 
India of this zealous worker in that great 
field of our Church's activity is an event 
which cannot fail to redound to the benefit 
of Methodism. On page 87 will be found an 
outline of Bishop Thoburn's faithful labors. 



INDEX. 



[The numerals indicate the plates in which the portraits appear. The figures refer to the pages on which 

the biographical sketches are found.] 



Achiinl, Clement A. C Germany Ministerial XII 124 

Adams, Enos T Maine Ministerial 142 

Ahgren, Magnus F Sweden Ministerial XI 136 

Albert, Aristides E. P Louisiana Ministerial II 95 

Allen, Rohert N South Kansas Lay 175 

Allen, Washington G Central Alabama Lay II 85 

Andrews, James P East Tennessee Lay V 80 

Appleyard, Edward Erie Lay V 29 

Alter, Francis A East Ohio Lay XVII 118 

Ashley, Alexander Baltimore Lay X 125 

Atkinson, George W West Virginia Lay 54 

Atkinson, William T Kentucky Lay XV 142 

Avant, Henry H Mississippi Lay 88 

Axtell, Nathan H Rock River Ministerial XV 81 

Bailey, Isaac Central Illinois Lay 1 22 

Baker, Benjamin W Central Illinois Ministerial Ill GG 

Baker, Joseph S North Indiana Lay IX 112 

Bardall, John C West Virginia Lay 175 

Barnes, Doctor F Michigan Ministerial II 50 

Bates, Leavitt New-England Southern Lay 171 

Bayliss, Jeremiah H Cincinnati Ministerial V 11 

Beebe, Uriah S Central New York Ministerial 150 

Becni, David E Indiana Lay XIII 99 

Belcher, Frank J New York Ministerial X 105 

Bell, Graham Louisiana Lay IV 97 

Belt, Lerov A Central Ohio Ministerial VI 11 

Bentley, Edwin E West Wisconsin Lay XII 133 

Bentley, Robert California Ministerial Ill 15 

Benton, Stephen O New England Southern Ministerial XIV 134 

Bigelovv, Andrew J Detroit Ministerial V 18 

Bird, Benjamin O Delaware Lay XVIII 151 

Blumberg, Fritz A Southern German Lay IX 75 

Booth, John O Oregon Lay XV 131 

Boreing, Anion Kentucky Ministerial IV 52 

Boreman, Arthur I West Virginia Lav 149 

Borland, Robert S Erie Ministerial VI 23 

Boswell, James I Newark Ministerial XII 172 

Botkin, Jeremiah I) South-west Kansas Ministerial V 112 

Bovard, Marion M Southern California Ministerial VII Ill 

Boyce, William A Vermont Lay XVII 131 

Boyd, Hugh Georgia Ministerial V 29 

Bramley, Alexander Northern New York Ministerial 163 

Breiter." H. Jacob . . . : Switzerland Ministerial XI 161 

Briddell, Elisha L Delaware Lay XVIII 145 

Bridgman. George H Minnesota Ministerial V 39 

Brindell. George W Upper Iowa Ministerial 1 25 

Bristol, Frank M Rock River Ministerial XV 139 

Brown, Charles R Detroit Lay II 21 

Brown, William H. H Central Missouri Ministerial 150 

Browne, Nicholas M Wilmington Ministerial X 108 

Brush, William Dakota Ministerial VI 20 

Bryant, John E Georgia Lay XIII 173 

Buckley, James M New York East Ministerial VII 169 

Bunn, James H Central Illinois Lay II 60 

Burch, Thomas H New York East Ministerial XII 170 

Butler, John W Mexico Ministerial V 152 

Butt/., Henry A Newark Ministerial XIX 169 



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Call, Samuel Northern New York Ministerial 164 

Cannon, Ilenrv P Wilmington Lay XIII 119 

Card, Albert lit New York Lay VII 127 

Carroll, David H Baltimore Ministerial.... XII 165 

Carroll, Henry A Washington Ministerial X 126 

Carter, Thomas C Holston Ministerial IV 10 

Case, Halbert B Holston Lay XIV 31 

Cliadbourne, George S New England Ministerial XI 124 

Champlin, John E North Carolina Ministerial XVIII 73 

Chenoweth, Jasper F West Virginia Ministerial. 1 38 

Chestnut, Lawrence E Florida Lay XX 77 

Christian, Wiley M Holston. Lav XVI.. 150 

Christy, Butler C ,.. Pittsburg Lay XIV 123 

Clark, Charles J Maine Ministerial XIII 172 

Clark, Hiram C Newark Lay XIII 124 

Clayton, James A California Lay IV 37 

Clayton, William F Missouri Ministerial XV 132 

Clithero, Thomas Wisconsin Ministerial XX 152 

Coffey, William H Delaware Ministerial 158 

Cogsliall, Wilbur I Michigan Ministerial VIII 80 

Colborn, Abram II North-west Indiana Lay XVII 50 

Collins, Andrew P North-west Kansas Lay XVIII 153 

Colvin, Samuel P North-west Indiana Ministerial XVII 138 

Combs, Charles R Missouri Lay XIV 147 

Cool, Peter A Central Illinois Ministerial IV 62 

Coote, James Northern New York Ministerial IX 108 

Core, Jesse F Pittsburg Ministerial.. XIV 53 

Corner, George W Baltimore Lay 149 

Cowan, Samuel A Mississippi Ministerial VI 59 

Coxe, James C. W Iowa , Ministerial IV 152 

Cozier, Benjamin F. W Des Moines Ministerial XIX C>0 

Craig. William II Saint Louis Lay , XI 163 

Cranston. Earl Colorado Ministerial XVI .' 14 

Graver, Charles F Iowa Lay IV 30 

Crawford, Erast us A New Hampshire Lay 153 

Creighton, Charles F Nebraska Ministerial VII 51 

Crippen, John T Upper Iowa Ministerial 148 

Crogman, William H Savannah , Lay VII 46 

Crosthwaite, A.Clark Nebraska Ministerial XI 85 

Crouch, John F Philadelphia Ministerial XVIII 107 

Culver, Elisha W Vermont Ministerial XX 147 

Cumback, Will South-east Indiana Lay IX 101 

Curts, Lewis Rock River. Ministerial Ill 94 

Daggett, Washington L Maine Lay XVI 134 

Danforth, Horace M Northern New York.... Ministerial XIII 144 

Darnell, Samuel B Florida Ministerial 1 43 

Davis, James M Missouri Lay 158 

Davis, Lewis P Detroit Ministerial IV 21 

Day. James R .New York Ministerial XI 170 

Day, James W East Maine Ministerial XVI 144 

Dearborn, George S. Kansas Ministerial XVI 145 

Denny, David T Puget Sound Lay. VII 82 

Deputie, James H Liberia Ministerial XVI 129 

Dietz, Henrv.. Southern German Ministerial VI 96 

Diggs, D. William Dakota Lay Ill 104 

Dille, Elbert R California Ministerial XV 34 

Dixon, William L East Ohio Ministerial VII 138 

Dobbi us, George L New Jersey Ministerial XV 113 

Doherty, Robert R Newark Lay XIX 170 

Doiner, Abraham H East Ohio Ministerial 1 32 

Donnell, Jeremiah B Maine Lay 154 

Doolittle, Leonard S .Central Tennessee Lay 1 33 

Dorchester, Daniel New England Ministerial X . . 77 

Dryer. George H Genesee Ministerial Ill 175 

Duncan, William R. R Little Rock Ministerial XI 130 

Durrell, Jesse M New Hampshire Ministerial 156 

Durston, Thomas W Central New York Lay II 15 

Dwight, Samuel L Southern Illinois Lay X 100 

Eads, Abraham Idaho Ministerial XIX 79 

Easterling. Silas South Carolina Lay XI 86 

Eaton, Ephraim L West Wisconsin Ministerial XIV 41 

Eaton, George F New England Ministerial IX...... 128 



INDEX. 



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Eaton, Homer Troy Ministerial IX 140 

Eaton, Joel W Troy Ministerial X 162 

Eckles, John C Mississippi Ministerial VI 69 

Eckman, John G Wyoming Ministerial XVII 130 

Edson, Edward New England Southern.... Ministerial 152 

Edwards, Arthur Detroit Ministerial IV 36 

Elliott, D. Stewart South Kansas Lay 160 

Evans, John Colorado Lay 175 

Farley, Jesse P Upper Iowa Lay VII 100 

Farnsworth, Robert W. C Southern California Ministerial 103 

Fisher, Charles O Savannah Ministerial .... XVII 93 

Fisk, Clinton B New Jersey Lay XVII 105 

Fiske, Lewis R Detroit Ministerial III.. 13 

FitzGerald, James N Newark Ministerial XVI 168 

Fletcher, Thomas R Lexington .Lay 158 

Flood, Theodore L Erie Ministerial V 20 

Floyd, John C Michigan Ministerial 84 

Forbes, Robert Minnesota Ministerial.. II 49 

Ford, Thomas B Arkansas Ministerial XI 120 

Fortson, Thomas A Savannah Lay VIII 55 

Foster, George H Wisconsin Lay VIII 44 

Frost, Timothy P Vermont Ministerial XVII 150 

Fry, Benjamin St. J Saint Louis Ministerial XI 121 

Fuller, John L Liberia Lay XVI 141 

Gallagher, Charles W New England Southern Ministerial 154 

Ganoe, Martin L Central Pennsylvania Ministerial XIV 110 

Gardner, James H Ohio Ministerial Ill 40 

Gardner, Washington Michigan Ministerial XIV 76 

Gates, David W Troy Ministerial 163 

Gates, Martin L South-west Kansas Ministerial XI 159 

Gaver, Chester C Virginia Lay XII 48 

Gay, Leslie F Southern California Lay XVI 129 

Gillies, John Missouri Ministerial XVII 122 

Gillinder, James Philadelphia Lay V 113 

Goodsell, Daniel A New York East Ministerial XIX 168 

Goucher, John F Baltimore Ministerial XII 114 

Graham, Henry Troy Ministerial XIV 116 

Graves, Willis M North Carolina Lay X 49 

Graw, Jacob B New Jersey Ministerial IX 114 

Gray, Edward J Central Pennsylvania Ministerial XVIII 113 

Green, Harry H Upper Iowa Ministerial XII 67 

Green, John B Southern California Ministerial XIII 70 

Griffin, William Troy Ministerial XVIII 165 

Gue, George W Central Illinois Ministerial II 54 

Guibord, Alfred Troy Lay 162 

Haagensen, Andrew Norwegian and Danish Ministerial XVIII 60 

Halsey, Sabin Wisconsin Ministerial VIII 27 

Halstead, William R Indiana Ministerial. IV 73 

Hambleton, Miles N Kentucky Lay IV 84 

Hamilton, John W New England Ministerial... XX 166 

Hammond, Charles D Troy Lay XX 1 34 

Hammond, Edward W. S Lexington Ministerial XVI 122 

Harbert, Robert H Texas Ministerial X 155 

Hard, Mauley S Wyoming Ministerial V 109 

Hare, George S New York ..Ministerial X 117 

Harrington, William S Oregon Ministerial VII 79 

Hartson, Chancellor California Lay 151 

Hartzell, Joseph C Louisiana .Ministerial VIII 173 

Hawes, Marquis D Illinois Ministerial 174 

Hays, Daniel W East Tennessee Ministerial V 35 

Hazzard, George H Minnesota Lay 1 97 

Heard, William A New Hampshire Lay 153 

Heaxt, Aaron D Troy Ministerial 161 

Hedler, Charles F Chicago German Ministerial 1 33 

Heins, Henry H North German Lay IX 72 

Henry, Charles L North Indiana Lay XIX 145 

Hetherington, John S Austin Lay XVII 174 

Hewes, Matthias A .Illinois .Ministerial II 27 

Hickman, William H North-west Indiana .Ministerial XV 76 

Hildreth, Thompson F North Ohio Ministerial V 71 

Hill, Svlvester J North Dakota Lay XX 70 

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Hitchcock, Horace Detroit Lay IV 78 

Hite, George E West Virginia .Ministerial XII 95 

Holdstock, Enoch North Indiana Ministerial XII 116 

Hollinger, George W Washington Lay XI Ill 

Holmes, John A Washington Ministerial XX 119 

Hooker, William S Des Moines Ministerial VII 126 

Horton, Jacob Detroit Ministerial Ill 86 

Hoyt, Frederick W Minnesota Lay 82 

Hudson, Charles G North Indiana Ministerial XIII 156 

Hughey, George W Saint Louis Ministerial 167 

Hukill, George P Erie Lay VII 24 

Hunt, Sandford „ Genesee Ministerial XVIII 13 

Hunter, William H Central Illinois Ministerial. XVIII 30 

Huntington, De Witt C Genesee Ministerial 1 18 

Hurst, Samuel H Ohio Lay XVII 103 

Hyden, J. Albert South Kansas Ministerial XII 176 

Jackson, Jr., John C Ohio Ministerial IX 25 

Jacobs, Ole B Norwegian and Danish Lay VIII 98 

Jacoby, Hermann H Saint Louis German ...Lay XI 57 

Jewell, William T. East Maine Ministerial XV 157 

Johnson, Albinns A Austin Ministerial XVIII 159 

Johnson, John H Norway Ministerial ............ IX 44 

Johnson, Porter C West Nebraska Ministerial VI 102 

Johnson, Thomas W Tennessee Lay XVII 133 

Johnson, William II Southern California Lay XX 80 

Jones, Charles D North-west Kansas Lay XIV 125 

Jones, Daniel . Lexington Ministerial 149 

Jones, Jason L Louisiana Lay XIX 156 

Jones, Jerome B West Wisconsin Lay VIII 77 

Jones, John E Cincinnati Lay V 86 

Jones, Thomas Central New York Lay I. 19 

Jordan, D wight A New England Southern Ministerial 156 

Joyce, Isaac W ...Cincinnati Ministerial VIII 41 

Keller, Frederic K East German Lay XVIII 131 

Kelly, Bernard South Kansas Ministerial XX 135 

Ketron, Henry F Blue Ridge Lay VIII 23 

King, George T Saint John's River Lay XVI 126 

King, Isaac F Ohio Ministerial XI 37 

King, James M New York Ministerial VIII 109 

Kin«\ William F Upper Iowa Ministerial XII 68 

Knight, Henry W New York East Lay XIX 72 

Knox, George L Lexington Lay XVI 146 

Koeneke, William Saint Louis German Ministerial VI 74 

Kopp, Frederick North German Ministerial X 67 

Kost, Philip W West German Lay XIII 61 

Kynett, Alpha J Upper Iowa , Ministerial IX 58 

Lacey, John W Colorado Lay VIII 26 

Laidlaw, Robert .....Bengal Lay 148 

Lanahan, John Baltimore Ministerial 168 

Lathrop, William R South-east Indiana Ministerial 138 

Leacock, John C Wyoming Ministerial XV 136 

Lease, Gershom Central Ohio Ministerial XI 154 

Lee, Edward Texas Ministerial XX 40 

Leeper, John Southern Illinois Ministerial VI 51 

Leidy, George Central Pennsylvania Ministerial XIII 174 

Leonard, Adna B Cincinnati Ministerial VII 19 

Le Sourd, David G Puget Sound Ministerial VII 71 

Liebhart, Henry J Central German Ministerial VIII 17 

Lindgren, John R North-west Swedish Lay XIV 139 

Liscomb, John N Minnesota Ministerial , XX 80 

Little, Charles J Philadelphia Ministerial XIX 166 

Locke, John W Southern Illinois Ministerial XII 121 

Lockwood, John H. . . . North-west Kansas Ministerial XIII 109 

Loeber, Christian A Chicago German Ministerial 149 

Lounsbury, Phineas C New York East Lay XIII 119 

Lowrie, Daniel R Newark Ministerial VI 90 

Lyman, Nathan E Rock River Lay XV 157 

Lynch, Charles W North Indiana Ministerial 164 

Lyon, Richard W Southern Illinois Lay X 96 

Maclay, Robert S Japan Ministerial XIX 165 

Mahin, John Iowa Lay XV 135 

Mansfield, Joseph II New England Ministerial IX 175 



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Mark ham, Wilbur F Northern New York Ministerial XX 146 

Marshall, Julius F Louisiana Ministerial IX 54 

Martin, Alexander Indiana Ministerial X 84 

Martini, Giovanni Italy Lay 171 

Marvin, James Kansas Ministerial XVI 139 

Maxfield, John B North Nebraska Ministerial XIX 63 

Mc Adams, Henry H South-west Kansas Lay XIII 154 

McBirney, Hugh South Kansas Ministerial VIII 164 

McCabe, Charles C New York Ministerial XV 142 

McCulloch, Charles O Central Illinois Ministerial VI 02 

McCulloch. Jack B Texas Lay VI 69 

McElroy, William N Illinois Ministerial 1 91 

McFarland, J. Thomas Iowa Ministerial VI 21 

McGerald, Samuel Genesee Ministerial II. .... . 59 

Mclntire, Edgar O Austin Ministerial XVI 75 

McKay, W. John West Wisconsin Ministerial IV 24 

McKinney, Alfred W Central Alabama Ministerial XII 29 

McLean, Charles C Saint John's River Ministerial XVII 38 

McNeill, James W Central Tennessee Ministerial VIII 102 

Melson, Levin S Wilmington Lay XV 123 

Mendenhall, James W North Ohio Ministerial IV 57 

Meyer, Deidrich B Central German Lay VI 76 

Michell, William Columbia River Lay Ill 75 

Middleton, James B South Carolina Ministerial XX 94 

Miley, John New York Ministerial 171 

Miller, Noble G Pittsburg Ministerial XI 82 

Miller, Warner Northern New York Lay VIII. . . . , . 138 

Mills, Edmund M Central New York Ministerial Ill 14 

Mitchell, Bennett North-west Iowa Ministerial 1 167 

Mock, William H South-west Kansas Lay XIV 127 

Monroe, David S Central Pennsylvania Ministerial XIII 88 

Moore, David H Colorado .Ministerial Ill 56 

Moore, Enoch W Illinois Lay VIII 101 

Moore, Homer H Erie Ministerial 107 

Murray, Stanley South India Lay , 173 

Murray, S. Wilson Central Pennsylvania Lay ..... ...... 151 

Murray, Thomas H Central Pennsylvania Lay XI 136 

Musselman, De Lafayette Illinois Lay XIV 28 

Neely, Thomas B Philadelphia Ministerial IV 91 

Nelson, Andrew J California Ministerial VII 81 

Norris, George W New Hampshire Ministerial 155 

Olin, William H Wyoming Ministerial. . . XX 110 

Olmstead, DeWitt C Wyoming Ministerial XVIII 133 

Paine, Edward L Wisconsin Lay XVIII 43 

Paine, Louis East Ohio Ministerial II 32 

Parker, Millard F Alabama Lay 83 

Parrish, Watson Southern California Lay » 163 

Parrotte, Josiah L West Nebraska , Lay XIII 92 

Paxson, William J Philadelphia < Ministerial 176 

Payne, Charles H Cincinnati Ministerial VII 72 

Pealer, Russel R Michigan Lay XIX 89 

Pearl, Joseph Oregon Lay 171 

Peck, Albert D North-west Iowa Lay.. 1 40 

Peck, Edward W. S Washington Ministerial XI 102 

Peck, Jonas O New York East Ministerial VII Ill 

Pehrsson, Jons Sweden Lay 172 

Peirce, John D Alabama Ministerial. XVIII 66 

Pendleton, Samuel E Kansas Ministerial XIV 155 

Persinger, Newtou R North Nebraska Lay X 137 

Persons, Elvero G North Ohio Ministerial II 104 

Phillips, Absalom C Arkansas Lay XIV 129 

Phillips. William H New England Southern Lay 155 

Pickett, Calvin Tennessee Ministerial X 106 

Plannette, David C North Dakota Ministerial VIII 71 

Pollard, John K Cincinnati Lay XIV 120 

Porter, Archibald J Virginia Ministerial XI 18 

Pottle, Abel W Maine Ministerial XX 146 

Potts, James H Michigan Ministerial II 52 

Power, George N Iowa Ministerial XII 117 

Pullman, Joseph New York East. Ministerial. XI 115 

Quattlander, Paul East German Ministerial VI 99 

Queal, Luke C Central New York Ministerial , 16 



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Raymond, Bradford P Wisconsin Ministerial 172 

Reed, Horace Illinois Ministerial IV 53 

Reese, Manoah B Nebraska Lay 65 

Reid, John M Michigan Ministerial V 89 

Reynolds, George Wyoming Lay XVI 164 

Rickards, John E Montana ■ ...Lay 92 

Ridpath, John C North-west Indiana Lay XIV 93 

Rieke, Henry Chicago German Lay XVII 37 

Riley, Christopher C Little Rock Lay 153 

Ritchie, Morris L Kansas Lay XV 141 

Ritter, Eli F South-east Indiana Lay 161 

Roberson, James D Blue Ridge Ministerial V 66 

Roberts, Samuel L Central Ohio Ministerial XII 121 

Robins, Joseph E New Hampshire Ministerial 154 

Robinson, John E South India Ministerial 174 

Rogers, Lucius H North Nebraska Lay XVIII 144 

Rothweiler, Jacob Central German Ministerial IV 24 

Satterlee, William W Minnesota Ministerial XVII 42 

Schneider, Peter F Central German Ministerial... VI 19 

Schultz, Jacob F Central German Lay II 32 

Schu'z, Christoph. . . „ North-west German Ministerial XVII 42 

Schutz, Henry Saint Louis German .Ministerial IX 94 

Scott, Isaiah B Texas Ministerial 1 28 

Seefeld, Gustave A Chicago German Lay II 67 

Sefrit, Moses L. B Indiana , Lay XIX 31 

Sha nnon, William A Montana Ministerial XVIIL 153 

Shaw, Leslie M Des Moines ....Lay Ill 26 

Sheats, Benajah Alabama Lay XVII 143 

Shinkle, Amos Kentucky Lay Ill 16 

Shunipert, James M Mississippi Ministerial XIII 27 

Sia Sek Ong Foochow Ministerial XVI 143 

Sigler, David S Des Moines Lay 1 93 

Simmons, Ichabod New York East Ministerial X 114 

Simons, Ernest A East Ohio Ministerial II. .... . 10 

Simpson, Franklin T North Indiana .Ministerial 120 

Sims, Charles N Central New York Ministerial IX 12 

Sims, James P Mississippi ,. Lay IX 34 

Skirm, William H New Jersey Lay 159 

Slay back, John D New York Lay XV 148 

Smart, James S Detroit Ministerial 163 

Smith, Charles W .....Pittsburg Ministerial XVII 52 

Smith, Lebbeus C New England Lay XIX 118 

Smith, William T Des Moines Ministerial 1 63 

Snyder, Edward A Upper Iowa Lay XVI 64 

Sooy, J. Leander New Jersey Ministerial XITI 158 

Speake, William F Baltimore Ministerial IX 112 

Speare, Alden New England Lay XIX 160 

Spence, John F Holston Ministerial Ill 78 

Spencer, John O Japan Lay XVI 135 

Spencer, William A Rock River Ministerial XVI 48 

Stanton, Jerome I Genesee Lay Ill 15 

Stephens, William A Central Pennsylvania Ministerial XX 140 

Stewart, John W Nebraska Ministerial VII 83 

St. John, William Central Ohio Lay IV 28 

Stolz, Michael M North-west Kansas Ministerial IX 115 

Stone, Nelson L Northern New York Lay XVIII 161 

Storm, John B Philadelphia Lay XII 116 

Stout, William H South Kansas Lay XVIII 162 

Stowe, William P Wisconsin Ministerial XII 88 

Strickler, Josiah A Pittsburg Lay XX 68 

Striker, Daniel Michigan Lay Ill 39 

Stuart, Thomas McK Des Moines Ministerial II 23 

Stubbs, Joseph E North Ohio Lay V 42 

Super, Charles W Ohio Lay 61 

Swackhamer, Samuel O Idaho. Lay II 73 

Swauu, Harry West Texas Ministerial X 98 

Swarts, Benjamin C South-west Kansas Ministerial 162 

Swindells, William Philadelphia Ministerial V 117 

Taber, Ira I Kansas. Lay XVII 147 

Talbott, Henry J Indiana Ministerial 1 64 

Tanner, Jacob West German Ministerial VI 45 

Taylor, Seneca N Saint Louis Lay VIII 149 



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189 



Taylor, Zachary P Genesee I/ay HI 12 

Temple, Chauucey Vermont Lay XX 157 

Tevis, John S South-east Indiana Ministerial XX 98 

Thoburn, James M Bengal Ministerial VIII 87 

Thomas, David W North India Ministerial Ill 35 

Thomas, Samuel W Philadelphia Ministerial XII 127 

Thomas, William H Delaware Ministerial 132 

Tibbetts, Eben M East Maine Lay XVII 141 

Todd, Jacob Wilmington Ministerial X 118 

Toland, John W East Ohio Ministerial Ill 55 

Townsend, Governor R West Texas Lay Ill 58 

Trimble, Joseph M Ohio Ministerial 9 

Trusdell, Charles G Rock River Ministerial IX 123 

Turner, William S Columbia River Ministerial II 33 

Tyler, Samuel M Washington Lay. X 130 

Upham, Samuel F New England Ministerial VII 107 

Upshaw, Seaborn C Savannah Ministerial VIII 62 

Urmy, William S California Ministerial XII 151 

Utter, Russell D North-west Indiana Ministerial VI 64 

Van Benschoten, Sanford Newark Ministerial XVI 159 

Vanhorne, Garret R Rock River Ministerial 82 

Vaughn, Harrison S North-west Iowa Lay II 45 

Velde, Habbe Saint Louis German Lay VI 47 

Vernon, Leroy M Italy Ministerial XVIII 132 

Vincent, John H Rock River Ministerial V 46 

Wadhams, Elijah C Wyoming Lay...; 159 

Walden, Charles S Central Missouri Lay 150 

Wallar, James L Southern Illinois Ministerial 161 

Walsh, John D Kentucky Ministerial XIV 49 

Warden, James M West Virginia Ministerial XIII 100 

Watkins, William B Pittsburg Ministerial X 56 

Webster, Eugene A South Carolina Lay XX 176 

Webster, William H Illinois Ministerial XIII 99 

Weir, James M Ohio Ministerial ...... 159 

Wentworth, John B Genesee Ministerial IV 17 

Wentworth, Thomas H East Maine ,Lay XV 137 

Wernli, Jacob North-west German Lay V 81 

Wheeler, Alfred Erie Ministerial XIII 173 

Wheeler, Bert E West Wisconsin Ministerial XIV 137 

Whitfield, Wilmot North-west Iowa . . Ministerial XIV 104 

Whitlock, Elias D Central Ohio Ministerial IX 128 

Whitlock, William F North Ohio Ministerial 69 

Whitney, Calvin North Ohio Lay VII 91 

Wight, George B New Jersey Ministerial 164 

Wigren, John North-west Swedish Ministerial 1 87 

"Wilbor, Carlton C Central New York Ministerial 1 9 

Wilbur, James H Columbia River Ministerial 169 

Wilder, William H Illinois Ministerial XIX 65 

Wilkins, John H Texas Lay VI 55 

Williams, John B Central Ohio Lay VII 90 

Will iams, John E - Genesee Ministerial IV 22 

Williams, Silas J East Ohio Lay 1 26 

Wilson, Daniel E Missouri Lay XV 140 

Wilson, John A. B Wilmington Ministerial XIX 167 

Wilson, Joshua E South Carolina .' Ministerial XV 74 

Worley, William M North Nebraska Ministerial XV 47 



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